After 119 years of Catholic education, St. Stanislaus School on Rockland Street will close, the Diocese of Fall River ...

In a quiet corner of this Oxfordshire town, the small Catholic ... Diocese, and a small but significant minority elsewhere, giving England the world's largest concentration of married Roman ...

The latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

Weisenburger, 64, has led the Catholic diocese in Tucson, Arizona, an area bordering Mexico that has seen thousands of ...

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of an influential Peruvian bishop, who has come under criticism for not doing ...

Critics say that the Archdiocese of Santa Fe’s roster of “credibly accused” priests should be longer — by 59 names — but the ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

The testimonies submitted to the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith during the Vatican's Second Commission on Women and ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic Church ... entrusted to the pastoral government of the Roman pontiff, the divinely appointed successor ...

Long before he converted to Roman Catholicism ... 1923 when my husband gave a lecture on marriage at a Congress of the Catholic Academic Association in Ulm, Germany. The lecture was a resounding ...

2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally ...

37 In the Eastern rites the Christian initiation of infants also begins with Baptism followed immediately by Confirmation and the Eucharist, while in the Roman rite it is followed by years of ...