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

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

It’s a trend across the country and here in NEPA, More and more churches are closing. But some entrepreneurs are using ...

The 67-year-old St. Thomas More — a striking example of modernist Catholic ecclesiastical design — will hold its last liturgy on May 25 and will no longer function as a church after that.

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the globe. Many conservative Roman Catholic Church leaders disagreed with Pope ...

All Roman Catholics are ... with the Eastern Orthodox Church and then again with the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents around the world.

The pope, the Bishop of Rome, is considered a successor to Saint Peter and holds authority over the Catholic Church ... Here's what to know. All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the ...