VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Women meeting in Rome this week to promote female leadership in the Catholic Church are challenging the hierarchy’s resistance to change and its theological emphasis on ‘natural’ ...

The synodal process on synodality for a synodal Church is just weeks away from the first phase of its planetary stage. Phase 1 will take place beginning Oct. 4 in Rome, with Phase 2 set for October ...

COMMENTARY: The Holy Spirit’s role in our lives, whether we are at the Synod on Synodality, at home or at work, is to remind us of our mission, which is to conform ourselves to Christ. Pope Francis ...

Peter Kilpatrick has a background in the hard sciences but on Thursday, the new president of The Catholic University of America spoke about matters of the soul. Addressing students, faculty, and staff ...

Two recent columns by Franciscan Fr. Daniel P. Horan received mixed reactions from NCR readers. The first column, "The church is suffering from Holy Spirit atheism," talks about how the ongoing ...

The remarkable community of St. Ignatius parish pre-dates the arrival of Franciscan missionaries in 1776. They discovered a beautiful meadow, rich with grama grass, and named it according to that very ...

The Holy Spirit is what gives power, life, and dynamism to evangelization, not good rhetorical skills, Pope Francis said Wednesday. According to St. Luke – Pope Francis said – the words of men become ...

As I mentioned in my last column, I'm focusing a series of columns on the Holy Spirit over the next few weeks. Next I want to invite us to consider how and where we are to find the divine presence of ...

POCATELLO — Father Henry Carmona didn’t always plan to become a pastor. Initially, he wanted to be an architect. In fact, he was two years into his studies before he ran out of funding and his parish ...

When Holy Spirit Hospital opened in 1963, the building included an attached convent to serve as home for the nuns who made up a major portion of the hospital workforce. Over the decades, the role of ...

Q: If the church’s new year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, then why is the secular New Year’s Day (Jan. 1) a holy day ...