With an audience of over 1.5 million around the world, the Bible in a Year podcast is the No. 1 podcast in Religion and Spirituality on Apple Podcasts. And now, Catholics and non-Catholics alike can ...

To encourage believers during the Year of Faith, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has released a reflection on the Catechism as a faith resource that is universal in nature, as well as a call ...

“The Catechism must not be turned into an instrument to shorten theological discussion and forestall magisterial decision.” That is the conviction of Stephan Kampowski, professor of philosophical ...

Bishop Frank J. Caggiano of Bridgeport, Conn., is seen in this Oct. 1, 2020, file photo. He is chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on the Catechism. (Credit: Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS.) Listen ...

As almost everyone knows, a catechism is a book or manual for the instruction in a particular religion. Perhaps the most famous one is the “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” which runs to some 800 ...

During the current Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI has given Catholics a specific task: to study the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the first authoritative summary of the Church’s teachings in ...

BALTIMORE (CNS) — During their June 11-13 meeting in Baltimore, the U.S. bishops are looking at what the U.S. church teaches its adult members about the death penalty and they will vote about adding a ...

Pope Francis has significantly revised the teaching on the death penalty in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, declaring that “in the light of the Gospel” the death penalty “is inadmissible because ...

It isn't every day that a prince of the Roman Catholic Church, and a strategic Jesuit ally of the pope, openly rejects centuries of Christian teachings that clash with core doctrines of the Sexual ...

Should the Virgin Mary be referred to as the Mother or the Mama of Jesus Christ? This question, while not the major issue in the controversy, was nevertheless one irritant in the latest quarrel ...