Founded before California statehood, the First Baptist Church of San Jose moved into distinctive hilltop home in 1970.

The back-and-forth has been going on uninterrupted for seventy years. This time, however, the issue will end up directly on ...

Byzantine Empress Theodora, would become an actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist, empress of the civilized world, and ...

While several bloggers and content creators have framed it as a "new position", it is technically not. It is also not a ...

Sunday's ceremony in St. Peter's Square blends ancient ritual, evocative symbols and a nod to modern-day celebrity.

President Donald Trump launched a new commission on religious liberty on Thursday with some polarizing comments about church-state separation. Speaking at a Rose Garden ceremony, the president ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A San Diego church has joined a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement ability in houses of worship. Our Lady of Guadalupe ...

CHICAGO -- Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans, Louisiana, records show. ABC News has obtained several records ...

After a short return to the U.S. as an official of the Augustinian order in Illinois, he returned to Peru as a seminary professor to teach canon law, the legal structure of the Catholic Church.

"It's surprising," a parishioner at Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco said following the news of his election. "I just saw something the other day about how America wasn't going to ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the ...

The diversity was part of the legacy of Pope Francis, who appointed cardinals from underrepresented countries like Laos and Haiti to broaden the church’s global appeal. Francis spent 12 years as ...