NEW YORK — Cardinal Avery Dulles, the only U.S. theologian named a cardinal without first becoming a bishop, was a convert to Catholicism from a prominent American family with roots in Charleston.

A leading U.S. cleric is proposing the “conversation in the Spirit” methodology employed at last October’s Synod on Synodality assembly as a model for reforming the Church, placing particular emphasis ...

Before the month-long meeting of the Synod on Synodality last October in Rome, delegates were invited to a pre-synod retreat led by Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. Part of the purpose of the retreat was to ...