Religious scholars and political pundits are asking if (and how far) the new Pope Leo XIV will advance the Church, and ...

With deep ties to both the United States and Peru, Pope Leo steps into spiritual leadership of 1.4 billion Catholics, ...

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

Catholics suffer from widespread ignorance of important, historical precedents of both female and lay ecclesial leadership.

Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

we asked our readers to submit their views on the Catholic Church. Bill Fox (66), a retired clinical psychologist from Co Sligo, says he is “very proud to be a Roman Catholic in Ireland today”.

The Associated Press VATICAN CITY—Pope Leo XIV made plenty of enemies helping dismantle a powerful Catholic movement whose leaders physically, sexually, spiritually and psychologically abused members.

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

“Everybody has their role and we are happy to stay at our place, which is not within the hierarchy ... how the Roman Curia – the administrative body of the Roman Catholic Church – is an ...

Resisting Orders untangles the power and resistance of women religious, asking what it means to agitate for change from within at a time of reckoning for the Roman Catholic Church.