Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese, now seeking to reorganize its depleting finances in U.S. Bankruptcy Court after settling 67 priest misconduct lawsuits, is bracing for a new wave of child sex ...

ALBANY — Officials from Albany’s Roman Catholic Diocese hailed the election of Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from the United States, at a news conference Thursday ...

The election of Robert Francis Prevost as the first US pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church surprised many around the world and brought pride to Chicago’s southeast side ...

SO THAT WAS HOW I INTERPRETED THAT GESTURE. THEN THERE’S POLITICS. WE HAVE A VICE PRESIDENT WHO IS A ROMAN CATHOLIC. WE HAVE SIX OF OUR NINE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES WHO ARE ROMAN CATHOLIC.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Bishop Timothy Senior and staff with the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg were gathered on Thursday afternoon in a meeting room at the offices, watching news coverage of ...

The 133 cardinal electors have just elected the Roman Catholic Church' 267th Pope, duly signaled by the white smoke seen coming out of Rome's Sistine Chapel at around 12:20 a.m. on Friday morning, May ...

Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, Reverend Salvatore R. Matano pledged his congregation's support and fidelity to the newly elected pontiff in a May 8 statement. Pope Leo not only ...

Bishop Mark Bartchak of the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese addresses local media ... April Lauver, a member of Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, agreed, saying it “gives him a more worldly view.” ...

and former Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican shortly after his election as the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic ...

In his first remarks as the leader of more than one billion Roman Catholics around the world ... Prevost as the 267th leader of the Roman Catholic Church, choosing to take the name Pope Leo ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope on Thursday — the first American in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church ... mention to his former diocese in Peru, where he spent ...