On Holy Saturday night at the Cathedral, Archbishop Nelson Pérez welcomed into the Catholic Church some of the 725 adults ...

Dark matter may have contributed to the formation ... But collapsing clouds of gas tend to form molecular hydrogen, which is very efficient at cooling the gas. Instead of leading to collapse ...

On this episode of “Interesting Times,” Ross Douthat is joined by the Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit priest and the editor of ...

Q. 587. What do we mean by the "matter and form" of the Sacraments? A. By the "matter" of the Sacraments we mean the visible things, such as water, oil, bread, wine, etc., used for the Sacraments.

Letter: Kilmar Abrego Garcia, no matter what his identity, did not receive due process, for which he had a right. To not ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death ...

Francis had long said the celibacy requirement could change, since it was not a matter of doctrine ... penalty” and solitary confinement a “form of torture,” saying both should be abolished.

it celebrated the sacraments as would be best understood and received in the context of individual cultures, without ever changing their essential form and matter. The early Church sought to ...