(RNS) — Since “Rerum Novarum,” Catholic social teaching has generally assumed that the state served as the primary ...

It’s not unusual for me to be asked, by Catholics, “Why do you spend so much time trying to evangelize Protestants?” I have been told, a number of times, that since Protestants already believe in ...

It was a minor landmark in church history. Last week the Roman Catholic Church issued a new and explicit clarification of the conditions under which Catholics may be permitted to discuss religion and ...

The video outlines structural and doctrinal differences between Catholic and Protestant Bibles, explaining why canons, ...

Some years ago Reinhold Niebuhr declared that “the acrimonious relations between Catholics and Protestants in this country are scandalous. If two forms of the Christian faith, though they recognize a ...

Other traditions accuse the Reformers of ignoring church tradition and frustrating church unity. That gets things backward. I was raised in Indonesia as part of a Roman Catholic family. When I first ...

Here’s a common occurrence for me on social media. I post a graph that’s really basic: how a bunch of religious traditions ...

This Pew Research Center analysis looks at reasons why people identify as Catholic or switch out of Catholicism. It is part of a broader report that focuses on patterns in religious switching in the ...

On certain thin-aired uplands where theologians graze, it is growing increasingly difficult to tell a Protestant from a Roman Catholic. To a degree that would have been unthinkable 50 years ago, they ...

A report from the liberal HuffPost raised eyebrows among critics for suggesting Catholics were being excluded from a Good Friday service at the Pentagon. HuffPost senior politics reporter Jennifer ...

Stories of Catholics encountering opposition to their religion, compiled during this semiquincentennial anniversary of the ...