The Roman Catholic Church’s first American pope is likely to continue many priorities of his predecessor, the late Pope ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

All Roman Catholics ... splits, first in 1054 with the Eastern Orthodox Church and then again with the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents ...

The deadlocked court affirmed the Oklahoma Supreme Court’s finding that the Catholic school would be functioning as a government entity.

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

All Roman Catholics ... splits, first in 1054 with the Eastern Orthodox Church and then again with the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's 266th pontiff, was the first Jesuit to lead the church ... The Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic order founded in 1540 by Saint ...