Pope Francis, the first pontiff from Latin America, whose warm, humble, no-nonsense manner galvanized the Roman Catholic ... of the church.” A credible inside account of the closed-door conclave ...

The rock is visible along the basilica’s ambulatory and at the top through a glass panel in the Greek Orthodox ... Today, two chapels — one Catholic and the other Greek Orthodox — stand ...

The church's owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

Rome, Italy – When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, he faced loud calls to expand the role of women within the Roman Catholic Church ... like he unlocked the door but didn’t fully open ...

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

A panel of scholars at ... executive director of The Catholic Project. Credit: Tessa Gervasini/CNA “It’s a constituent of the common good of the Church. There’s a reason the Church has ...

NIGEL AND SYDNEY, WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PERHAPS POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE U.S.? I SPOKE TO HISTORIAN AT FURMAN UNIVERSITY AS HE BREAKS IT ALL DOWN.

making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict.Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious ...

a mission was maintained for the benefit of early French settlers as well as Potawatomie Native American converts to the Catholic faith, the release states. The present church building dates to ...

A Catholic church in Queens was engulfed in flames less than 24 hours before worshippers were set to gather for Easter Sunday mass. The fire broke out at Saint Edmund Church of the Holy Trinity ...

This previously devout cradle Catholic has lost her patience with a church that has sold its soul over a single issue. Truth Social/realDonaldTrump Along with most of the world, I saw the ...

Visitors have been able to step into a reconstructed 17th-century Catholic ... of the church survived, along with 17th-century lead coffins that visitors can view under a glass floor.