Portugal's Catholic Church has reiterated new safeguarding commitments in line with an independent commission on sexual abuse by clergy, although most of its dioceses also reported inconsistencies in ...

As a grant writer for a large nonprofit, I recently had a call from a woman with noble intentions. She indicated she had received a “calling from the Lord” to establish a faith-based organization that ...

Where is St. Patrick when we need him? The Catholic saint drove the snakes out of Ireland, and now we need someone to drive the snakes out of the Catholic Church in America. The nation’s 61 million ...

One of the greatest sins infecting society is domestic violence. Clearly, most in the church are quick to denounce the sin of domestic violence with the understanding that nobody should be unsafe in ...

VENEGONO, Italy—One of Pope Leo XIV’s biggest quandaries is a question God himself asked: Whom shall I send? As in the book of Isaiah, few are answering “Here I am.” The Catholic Church has a manpower ...

I am that bicycle. You know, the one you haven’t gotten on in a while, and when you last tried it almost threw you off and you couldn’t get the gears to work? Stupid bicycle, you thought, what’s wrong ...

THE CHURCH IS too often implicated in and guilty of putting domestic violence on the backs of those abused (often but not always women) and asking them to submit to their partner’s rule, as a way of ...

Tight lips protect the family. As a newlywed pastor more than twenty years ago, I learned I should not routinely dump all the problems of ministry on my husband. I think it was a wise decision. Now ...

From reaching new congregants to managing volunteers, software is solving church problems. A few years ago, the concept of online church felt relatively novel. Relegated primarily to megachurches and ...