Despite losing 1,200 churches, America has gained 2.9 million Catholics since 2010, according to an NBC News analysis of data ...

The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring ...

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

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

Priests are required to report child abuse or neglect to Washington state law enforcement after learning about the crime ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...