By Matthew Mpoke Bigg and Isabel Kershner Matthew Mpoke Bigg reported from Rome, and Isabel Kershner from Jerusalem ... and other members of the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy are also ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has emerged as an intriguing possibility ahead of conclave, thrust into the spotlight by the war in Gaza.

Pentecost and ‘Russia Day’ fell just a few days apart. ‘Where are you, my Church?’ asked Father Andrej Misjuk bitterly, ...

Barnabas offers important lessons for modern evangelizers and missionaries. God’s grace is often at work in people and places ...

Cyril was most likely born in Jerusalem around the year 315 ... he delivered a series of lectures to new initiates of the Catholic Church. Twenty-four of the lectures have survived and are ...

The Patriarch of Jerusalem ... called the Church’s new language around artificial contraception, civil marriage and gay people “objectionable”. He previously said that Catholic politicians ...

According to insiders, another Italian could be in the running to be the next pope: Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Patriarch of Jerusalem ... to elect a new leader of the Catholic Church.

Also, Diana and Mike, a couple from Jerusalem who attended the ceremony with their young son, expressed hope that Pizzaballa could become the new head of the Catholic church. (They declined to giv ...

The Catholic office overseeing the Gaza church with which the late Pope Francis communicated daily has shared with Newsweek a message following the selection of a new pontiff in the midst of the ...

The death of a pope, and the election of a new pontiff, is adorned with high ritual and elaborate ceremony. For more about how the Catholic Church will celebrate and mourn Pope Francis ...

"We pray because we are grateful for his work and what he's done for the Church, and we pray for his soul," said 24-year-old Constance, a French Catholic volunteering in Jerusalem. Constance ...

Francis had led the Roman Catholic ... the Church’s complex history. The statistical centre started in the hills and deserts around Bethlehem (believed to be Jesus’s birthplace) and Jerusalem ...