The Vatican has declared Eastern Rite Indian Bishop Matthew Makil a venerable, bringing him one step closer to canonization.

According to the Roman Catholic tradition of apostolic succession, Peter was the first pope appointed by Christ. The line of ...

Pope Leo XIV made plenty of enemies helping dismantle a powerful Catholic movement whose leaders physically, sexually, ...

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...

Pope Leo XIV’s record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...

Pope Leo XIV’s record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed scrutiny since his election May 8 ...

SHARON — Last week, Father James Power found himself thrilled to be wrong. “Before the new pope was actually named, I was ...

You can take the boy out of the Catholic Church but you can’t take the Catholic Church out of the boy. I was raised as a Catholic and went to parochial elementary and high schools. Some of my ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

Habemus papam!” Those words echoed to the faithful around the world, including those waiting outside St. Peter’s Basilica as ...

VATICAN CITY (AP ... In that job he would have kept in regular contact with the Catholic hierarchy in the part of the world that counts still counts the most Catholics. Ever since he arrived ...