SAN FRANCISCO — Every Catholic convert has their own unique story of the journey that led them to the Catholic Church. For Ulf and Birgitta Ekman, theirs played out in public in secular Sweden ...

Catholicism was punishable in Sweden either by deportations or the death penalty between 1599 and 1781. In 1654, Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated her throne to convert to Catholicism.

A Catholic camp at a farm in Sweden. But Catholics themselves are also experiencing the distrust of some Swedish nationalists, who tend to see Catholicism as an imported religion.

While the Catholic Church in Sweden now has over 100,000 members, far more than the approximately 5,000 members it had in the 1950s, it is still far less than the Church of Sweden, which counts 6. ...

LUND, Sweden – Almost 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door, setting off more than a century of religious warfare and forever changing the practice of Christiani… ...

The founder of a 3,300-member megachurch in one of Sweden's largest cities announced yesterday [Sunday, March 9] his decision to leave his charismatic congregation and join the Roman Catholic Church.

Even though it is one of the most secularized nations in the world, Sweden is one of the few countries in Europe where the Catholic Church is growing, said the country’s first cardinal.

VATICAN CITY — Sweden’s first cardinal, Anders Arborelius, is a convert to Catholicism in the overwhelmingly Protestant Scandinavian country, which is home to one of the world’s most ...

Pope Francis in America 90 photos. MALMO, Sweden-- Pope Francis traveled to secular Sweden on Monday to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a remarkably bold gesture given ...

Although the main event of Pope Francis’s Sweden visit on Monday and Tuesday are the two commemorations with global Lutheran leaders, the Lutheran-Catholic relationship on the ground reflects ...