By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Isabel Kershner Matthew Mpoke Bigg reported from Rome, and Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem ... and other members of the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy are also ...

The Patriarch of Jerusalem ... called the Church’s new language around artificial contraception, civil marriage and gay people “objectionable”. He previously said that Catholic politicians ...

Cyril was most likely born in Jerusalem around the year 315 ... he delivered a series of lectures to new initiates of the Catholic Church. Twenty-four of the lectures have survived and are ...

In this landmark document, the Catholic Church for the first time ... by Pope Leo XIV deserves a response-not only from Jerusalem or New York, but from all parts of a world that today needs ...

Also, Diana and Mike, a couple from Jerusalem who attended the ceremony with their young son, expressed hope that Pizzaballa could become the new head of the Catholic church. (They declined to giv ...

kicked off a series of traditions that culminated on Thursday with some of the Catholic Church's most senior prelates voting to elect a new pope. A group of 133 cardinal electors — cardinals ...

The Catholic office overseeing the Gaza church with which the late Pope Francis communicated daily has shared with Newsweek a message following the selection of a new pontiff in the midst of the ...

The death of a pope, and the election of a new pontiff, is adorned with high ritual and elaborate ceremony. For more about how the Catholic Church will celebrate and mourn Pope Francis ...

"We pray because we are grateful for his work and what he's done for the Church, and we pray for his soul," said 24-year-old Constance, a French Catholic volunteering in Jerusalem. Constance ...

Francis had led the Roman Catholic ... the Church’s complex history. The statistical centre started in the hills and deserts around Bethlehem (believed to be Jesus’s birthplace) and Jerusalem ...

And now here we are with the first American as head of the worldwide Catholic Church. It's also true that ... 1891 encyclical "Rerum Novarum" - "Of New Things." In it, he outlined the rights ...