St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church started with promise in 1874, when the land around the new parish, in what is now the St. Louis Place neighborhood, was still rural. Within five years, the humble ...

Explore the haunting beauty of a forgotten Roman Catholic cathedral built in 1905. Join us on a journey through history as we uncover the stories and architecture of this historic abandoned church.. # ...

My mentor in studying moral theology, the Jesuit Josef Fuchs, once noted that “innovation” marked the agenda of most Roman Catholic moral theologians from the 1940s through the end of the 20th century ...

From being born enslaved to building the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, the trajectory of Father Augustus Tolton’s life is remarkable. Almost as stunning is the fact ...

Sunday, October 25, 1857 dawned unseasonably warm and humid over the city of Philadelphia. Up early that morning, Bishop John Nepomucene Neumann, pastoral leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of ...

Italian archaeologists recently made a surprising religious discovery in an unusual location: an Ancient Roman bath complex. The Appian Way Regional Park, an urban park in Rome, announced the ...

Pope Francis began an unprecedented summit in Rome to confront the Catholic Church's clergy abuse scandal by saying that Catholics are not looking for simple condemnation, but concrete actions. "In ...