Crews were called to the fire at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria Stein around 2:30 p.m., according to Joe Hartings, Chickasaw Volunteer Fire Department fire chief.

The Catholic Church in the United States has prayed faithfully for the hungry. Now we must feed them—not just through charity, but by transforming the systems that perpetuate hunger in our land ...

Priests will be excommunicated by the Catholic Church if they follow the law. Under Senate Bill 5375, Washington Democrats ripped out the “clergy privilege” exemption in Washington’s child ...

The Catholic Church said priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

Catholics are putting church over state when it comes to a new law requiring priests to report confessions about child abuse — and the Department of Justice has their back.

A Pew Research survey in February found 59% of U.S. Catholics say the Church should allow women to become priests; however, the Catholic Church believes only men can be priests, in part because ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic Church in a more progressive direction while leading with compassion ...

Remembering Pope Francis, the Catholic Church leader who broke with tradition Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons. But he upheld it in other areas, such as abortion and celibacy for priests.

VATICAN CITY - Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who built websites to spread his faith, will be proclaimed the Catholic Church's first saint of the millennial generation this month ...

The arm of the church serving U.S. Armed Forces and veterans hospitals is one of the few Catholic groups that has not created a public list of credibly accused priests. And there are lots of them ...

The Catholic Church has long positioned itself as an advocate for poor immigrants and provided them with services in the United States. But for decades, including during the great migration waves of ...