The decline of sacramental marriages in our country has been steady, and the reasons for it are deep-seated. However, the ...

Over the past 50 years, sacramental marriages among U.S. Catholics have plummeted, leading to fewer baptisms and shrinking parishes. Yet, signs of hope remain. This special report explores the ...

My Faith & You column brings in great emails from readers, many very powerful and personal. I’m using some of them today. All ...

Even though official Catholic teaching had until then put an almost exclusive stress on the importance of procreation as the purpose of marriage, the practice of the Church had always implicitly ...

"We don't go in and build houses. We don't go in and dig ditches. We go in and talk to the Haitian people about what their ...

Queen Elizabeth I’s secret love affair with Lord Robert Dudley set the royal court buzzing and threatened to unravel her ...

New religious movements generally garner equal parts attention and skepticism; this is especially true for new and ...

Julio Prendergast and Christina MacDougall are all smiles as they exit St. John the Baptist Church in Wading River, N.Y., ...

Living life through joy, work, love, family and challenges are part of any marriage. The key is putting in the time. For Earl ...

Mary C. Dahlke, 73, of Dassel passed away Saturday, Sept. 19, at GlenFields Living with Care in Glencoe. Funeral service was Friday, Sept. 25, at Peace Lutheran Church in ...

The ongoing debate in some academic centers about the real powers of the Pope any Pope is very serious, and once again brought into the spotlight by the 'Lion of Hong Kong,' the elderly ...

The unusual role of the Vatican bank The Institute for Religious Works, or IOR as it is known, is a peculiar institution, created in 1942 to help the church carry out its charitable mission while ...