A French archbishop’s decision to promote a priest who was sentenced to jail for raping a teenage boy has drawn new condemnation of the Roman Catholic Church for its record on sex abuse.Victim support ...

Technically any Roman Catholic man can be elected as the heir to St. Peter, though invariably one of the 253 cardinals from around the world will don the papal tiara. 9.

Secret ballots: The cardinals vote by hand, writing in the name of the man -- and it must be a baptized Roman Catholic man -- they want to be pope. One vote will take place Wednesday afternoon.

A young man who came forward in 2023 saying that he had been abused by a Pensacola priest while attending a private school says the case has now been settled.. The details of the settlement with ...

The Catholic News Agency earlier this year reported a slight increase in the number of Catholics globally, with the population growing to 1.406 billion in 2023 from 1.39 billion in 2022.

Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr. ordained nine new permanent deacons for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...

An Oklahoma man was arrested Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting of a Catholic priest at a church rectory in northeast Kansas, local police and church leaders said. Raj B. "Arul ...

Federal jury awards historic damages to man who says he was sexually abused at a school run by Holy Cross order ...

ATLANTA — An Atlanta man freed from Taliban captivity in March is talking about what it was like to be ... he was regularly beaten by his captors for refusing to renounce his Roman Catholic faith.

Pope Francis, who was 88, was the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church. He died earlier today (Easter Monday, April 21) a day after appearing in St Peter's Square to wish a ...