Nearly half of U.S. adults are connected to Catholicism, according to Pew Research Center. Read about going to Mass, ...

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 ...

making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a global turmoil and conflict. Soft-spoken Robert Francis Prevost is first pope from the United ...

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report information about child abuse to law enforcement — even if given in ...

With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, many are wondering in what direction a new pope will take the Catholic Church. The role of women in the Church is a big issue ...

Catholic cardinals will enter a sealed conclave this week to choose a new pope, with the Church's 1.4 billion members holding their breath over an uncertain outcome. Around 133 "Princes of the ...

There is a spike in converts to the Roman Catholic Church as young adults reportedly seek "moral order" after the pandemic years. While people may convert to the Catholic faith at any time of year ...

Before Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI was the leader of the Catholic Church. Benedict, a German-born academic, was one of the oldest popes to take charge of the church from 2005 until his ...

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 ...

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.

As a Catholic, Vance said, the criticism left him “heartbroken.” Then he hit out at the church for its role in garnering hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts to serve immigrants over ...