Most think reports about sexual abuse in the church reflect ongoing issues, but they don’t think the problem is unique to the ...

After closing parishes with little or no explanation or regard for the parishioners whose spiritual lives were uprooted, they ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been named the first American pope of the Catholic Church. What to know about Pope Leo ...

the Roman Catholic Church again has a leader who lived his vow of poverty among the marginalized in Latin America, where many migrants to the US originate. At a time when the US administration is ...

All Roman Catholics are ... with the Eastern Orthodox Church and then again with the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents around the world.

A local bishop will be installed as the fifth archbishop of the Old (Roman) Catholic Church of America next month at a three-hour ceremony in Wisconsin, church officials announced. Bishop Sherman R.

Argentinian-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the Catholic Church's 266th pope and the first ever from Latin America. He took the name Francis after the well-known St. Francis of Assisi ...

The pope, the Bishop of Rome, is considered a successor to Saint Peter and holds authority over the Catholic Church ... Here's what to know. All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the ...

The election of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV to lead the Roman Catholic Church raised ... impossible to close watchers of the church, the "Trump effect" on America and the international global ...

The Vatican's political influence is often underestimated. The Roman Catholic church is the only religious body that is, at the same time, a sovereign political state—with ambassadors ...