I stopped attending Mass regularly during high school. My father had taken my brothers and me to our local parish from the age we could sit still for an hour. But I increasingly became at odds with my...

The Northwestern community this afternoon watched a series of historic firsts for the Roman Catholic Church as Argentinian Jorge Mario Bergoglio was named its new pope. Catholic cardinals elected Bergoglio,...

On Tuesday, Pope Benedict XVI announced he is leaving the papacy. He says his age and health are preventing him from fulfilling his duties as pope. Now Catholics everywhere are wondering when the new pope...