A family in was forced to halt the burial of their 95-year-old matriarch, Maria Thereza Nakibuuka, due to a land dispute with ...

Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern ...

Hickman of the Old Catholic Church, a group that split from the Roman Catholic Church after the First Vatican Council in 1870, when some bishops in Europe disagreed over the issue of papal ...

Sister Francis Dominici Piscatella of Long Island, N.Y., is the world's oldest nun at 112 years old. Sister Francis, who has ...

It’s been more than 100 years since any new graves were erected at the Old Catholic Cemetery at Common and Iris Streets. Though disrepair is a problem, a major project will provide a solid fence that ...

Mourners came from all corners of the world. Some were compelled by pilgrimage, others to witness a snapshot in time of the 2000-year-old Catholic Church. Malcolm Brabant reports from Rome.

trying to identify a possible new pope who could follow Pope Francis and make the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church credible and relevant today, especially to young people. Although they come from 70 ...