Once viewed as peripheral players, Protestant churches have risen over the past two decades to become influential actors in ...

Editor: Commenting on the opening of the papal conclave, Brian Kilmeade of Fox News opined that the Catholic Church needs women priests and married priests to solve its priest shortage.

All Roman Catholics are Christians ... There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents around the world. The Catholic News Agency earlier this year reported a slight increase in the number ...

The pope, the Bishop of Rome, is considered a successor to Saint Peter and holds authority over the Catholic Church ... Here's what to know. All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the ...

Pope Francis, who was 88, was the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church. He died earlier today (Easter Monday, April 21) a day after appearing in St Peter's Square to wish a ...

What Roman Catholic news agencies have described as Fr Rupnik’s “exalted status” in the Church and at the Vatican is suggested to have saved him, together with the fact that the women were not minors ...

The 84-year-old, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987, recently criticised US President Donald Trump, comparing him to a Roman emperor. Costa Rica's former leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner ...

In one post, he compared Trump to “a Roman emperor” who tells other nations ... CNN has contacted the State Department for comment. Arias was Costa Rica’s president between 1986 and 1990 ...

Meanwhile, Pope Francis is the 266th pope to serve the Roman Catholic Church, and he assumed the papacy in 2013. He followed Pope Benedict XVI, who spearheaded the church from 2005 until he ...

Where St. Monica Roman Catholic Church used to be is now a small park. Built with Gothic pointed-arch doorways and circular stained-glass windows set into its hefty stone corners, the church ...