Eight decades after the partition of the Korean peninsula, the Catholic Church in South Korea remains one of the few actors ...

But with U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un locked in a tense battle of rhetoric, the Catholic Church is urging both heads of state to pursue a peaceful path ...

South Korea's religious circle congratulated Pope Leo XIV on Friday, following his election as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. "All bishops and faithful of the Korean Catholic Church ...

North Korea revived religions in 1988 with building the Changchung Catholic Church in Pyongyang without any resident priest. Also it claims some 3,000 Catholics, but the Catholic Bishops' Conference ...

Deepening unity among Catholics will be the greatest challenge facing the next pope, who will be elected as early as Wednesday.

Fr. Matteo Choi, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of Korea, told NCR after the Aug. 6 press conference told NCR that the Catholic Church in South Korea has hopes that young people from North Korea ...

The feast of the Korean martyrs, celebrated by the Catholic Church on Sept. 20, remembers 103 men, women, and children who died for their faith in the first decades of Korean Christianity.

Frank Duff, a layperson and civil servant, founded the Legion of Mary in Dublin, Ireland, in 1921. The Marian movement, an ...

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...