Sola fide is shorthand for the central issue of the Reformation, the material cause, which was the question of justification.

Pope Leo XIV has bestowed one of the Catholic Church’s highest honors on St. John Henry Newman, declaring him a doctor of the church ...

Jimmy Akin is the senior apologist at Catholic Answers, with more than 30 years of experience defending and explaining the ...

While Protestant voices were divided between oppressors and revivalist abolitionists, the Catholic Church’s stance on slavery in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries was more complex — a ...

In the 13th century, thousands in France were investigated, massacred, or even burned at the stake by the Catholic Church.

More and more Americans are watching horror, not just in October but all year long. The genre has outgrown its season. Horror now floods summer streams, rules box-office charts, and stalks every ...

Pope Leo declared St. John Henry Newman a co-patron of education along with St. Thomas Aquinas in his recent apostolic letter, “Drawing New Maps of Hope.” ...

Catholic funerals express the Christian hope in eternal life and the resurrection of the body on the last day. Every component of Catholic funeral rites should express these fundamental ...

By Katie Yoder, OSV News Influential religious leaders reminded Catholics of their responsibility to combat antisemitism ...

At his recent General Audience, Pope Leo XIV offered a message that deserves far more attention than a single day in the news ...

Pope Leo XIV is urging Catholic teachers to focus less on pre-professional outcomes and more on educating students to have ...

Pope Leo declared St. John Henry Newman, along with St. Thomas Aquinas, as a patron saint of the Catholic Church’s ...