It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic ... Byzantine. The Byzantine liturgy is based on liturgy developed by St. James for the Antiochaian ...

Twitter: @JBickertonUK. You can get in touch with James by emailing [email protected] Washington state Senator Noel Frame has rejected the Catholic Church's claim that it would have to ...

Rolwing's calling comes as the Catholic Church in the U.S. faces a serious priest shortage. Between 1970 and 2024, the number of priests fell by more than 40%, from 59,192 to 33,589, according to ...

Five Catholic churches closed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore have been put up for sale, becoming the first wave to hit the market since a mammoth reorganizing plan took effect last year.

Catholic churches across northern Lake County will merge over the next "several years" into four parishes, the Diocese of Gary said, in an effort to offset the impact of shrinking numbers of ...

“Will the people stay on in year five?” she asked. Nowhere is the Catholic Church more progressive than in Germany, which earned reprimands from Francis for moving too fast toward refor ...

Frank Connor, a member of the Order of Saint Augustine, a mendicant religious order within the Catholic Church. Pope Leo XIV "being an American, first off, is historic. Then, being from Chicago ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of peace in the world, offering a message of ...

The Church in the Netherlands is gaining momentum thanks to the “creative minority” of young people rediscovering the Catholic faith, Cardinal Willem Eijk said. Though Eijk considers the ...

In today’s Catholic Church, confusion reigns on core teachings, conservative and liberal factions are at war, the Vatican is on the verge of a liquidity crisis, and corruption infests the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, presided over his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday in front of a crowd of tens of thousands. World leaders including Vice President JD Vance ...

BAY CITY, MI – The decision whether to close a Catholic church in Bay City’s south end remains on hold after members of the Saginaw Diocese heard feedback from parishioners this week.