The pontiff, who died on Easter Monday at age 88, strived to make the church more inclusive. But critics believed his reforms ...

T his is not a great time to be a woman. Plus ça change, as my French sister-in-law might say. Fair point. Yet the evidence ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in ...

Easter is the deepest demonstration of love, sacrifice, and power. It reminds me that absolutely nothing is impossible with ...

The sermons she heard there drew from liberation theology (the radical late-20th-century movement which holds that the church ...

Holy Saturday falls between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, marking the solemn time when Jesus was in the tomb after his ...

In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the ...

It is finished” (John 19:30). These words of Jesus cannot be reversed. Throughout the centuries, their implications have been ...

Why is it called Good Friday? Is it a federal holiday for banks, stock market, post office or businesses? Here's what's open ...