The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has long advocated for robust federal nutrition programs, but our current political moment demands more comprehensive action from the church itself.

is shown at an event for Catholic Charities, the church’s social service arm. Facebook Share The Catholic church’s social service arm has long offered resources to women with unplanned or ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the Catholic Church around the world, has died at the age of 88. The Vatican said Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in others such as abortion, and made inroads with ...

This will signal another first in the 2000-year history of the Catholic Church – the first African or Asian pope. This successor will lead a Church that continues to be the largest Christian ...

But moments like this provide an opportunity to look at the long-term consequences of church-state relations around the world. Britain, of course, has a complicated history with the Catholic church.

In contrast, the Roman Catholic Church—whose members comprise nearly 80% of the population—does not officially endorse any political candidate. EDSA Shrine Rector and Catholic Bishops ...

VATICAN CITY - Carlo Acutis, a British-born Italian boy who built websites to spread his faith, will be proclaimed the Catholic Church's first saint of the millennial generation this month ...

A beloved small-town priest was gunned down at a Catholic church in Kansas Thursday afternoon by an unhinged Oklahoma gunman — just steps from where young students were playing outside the ...

But you wouldn’t know that from the Archdiocese for the Military Services, the arm of the Catholic church for the U.S. Armed Forces, Veterans Affairs hospitals and federal employees serving ...