The exhibit "The Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan and James McNeill Whistler" only partially achieves its aim of a "more humanistic understanding" of Hiffernan, the model and domestic partner of the renowned painter.
As the U.S. bishops consider a new document to address Catholic politicians who support legal abortion, historians and theologians describe the U.S. church-state confrontation as one lacking much precedent.
A coroner in Northern Ireland ruled that a priest and nine lay Catholics who were shot dead by British troops almost 50 years ago were "entirely innocent" and their deaths were unjustified.
Book Review: In Robots, Ethics and the Future of Jobs, Fr. Seán McDonagh highlights the need to address the potential repercussions of artificial intelligence and other developing technologies.
A prominent member of a church reform group in Ireland has expressed outrage in a letter to Irish Bishop Denis Nulty over his reference to Mary Magdalene's "colorful past" in an April 11 homily for a televised Mass.
The head of the Irish bishops' conference said the government's move to criminalize attendance at Mass as part of COVID-19 regulations was a "potential infringement of religious freedom and of constitutional rights."
Ireland's Catholic bishops plan to hold a synod within the next five years to — among other things — hear from people who were raised Catholic but have walked away from the church.
A change in wording to the concluding doxology of orations in the Roman Missal, from "one God, for ever and ever" to "God, for ever and ever," took effect on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17.
