Most think reports about sexual abuse in the church reflect ongoing issues, but they don’t think the problem is unique to the ...

Most see their parish priests favorably, and many engage in their parish beyond going to Mass, according to Pew Research ...

The Kremlin, on the other hand, is reticent to meet a fellow Orthodox nation in the heart of the Catholic Church ... beg to differ — since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned ...

The last three popes each chose very different paths between Rome and home—sometimes confrontational, sometimes aloof.

One of the most unifying elements of the Medieval Period was the Roman Catholic Church ... In the latter part of the Middle Ages, the pope, as head of the church, had a huge influence over ...

Within the Catholic Church, traditionalists and some canon ... had authority by the late Middle Ages over at least 78 priories—all of them mixed male-and-female communities, with women having ...

“Together, we must try to find out how to be a missionary church, a church that builds ... would have kept in regular contact with the Catholic hierarchy in the part of the world that counts ...

Whoever becomes Pope must be a baptised Catholic ... Church. If you believe the legend of Pope Joan, then yes, there has been a Popess. The story goes that Pope Joan served during the Middle Ages ...

(RNS) — Two years ago, Pope Francis denounced what he called “a very strong, organized, reactionary attitude” within the American Catholic church ... of the High Middle Ages.

For centuries, it was believed that in the Middle Ages, a woman who was particularly astute and talented disguised herself as a man and rose through the ranks of the Catholic Church until she ...

Francis will go down in history as a radical pontiff, a champion of underdogs who forged a more compassionate Catholic Church while ... first pontiff since the Middle Ages to step down.