What are the responsibilities of the Catholic Church when considering the historical realities of settler colonialism in what we now call the Americas? This question lies at the heart of recent ...

We must indoctrinate or we will disintegrate." So wrote H. H. Hargrove in the Western Recorder in 1940. He also said, ...

During the period that Saint John Paul II was pope from the late 1970s through 2005, he apologized and asked forgiveness for the history of Christian slave-holding and for the injustices inflicted by ...

Louise Large thrashed and screamed, fighting the black-robed nuns who held her tightly while speaking in a language she couldn’t understand. As she watched her grandmother walk away, the young Cree ...

It is perhaps no great secret that the Catholic Church in the U.S. is facing something of an identity crisis. On the one hand, there are those who interpret Pope Francis’s leadership as a license to ...

Pope Leo XIV said in his first interview as history's first American pope that he has no intention of getting involved in US politics but will raise his voice on issues of concern to the Catholic ...

Last month, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg, the relator general of the unfolding Synod on Synodality, stated that proposed reforms in the life of the Church “need a stable foundation.” ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Indigenous leaders and councils of sovereign nations welcomed the recent long-sought repudiation from the Vatican of the “Doctrine of Discovery.” Yet many citizens and survivors ...