Bishop for the Norwich Diocese, Richard F. Reidy, said the court's approval "marks an important step toward justice and ...

The Norwich diocese emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday when the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Hartford confirmed its ...

Pope Leo XIV, now the successor of St. Peter, leads the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church in a sacred role that few others will ever hold. But because of that, some supremely relatable facts ...

PRRI combined U.S. Census and MIT Election Lab data from 3,142 counties to estimate local religious demographics. Among Bay ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church ...

BUFFALO — The Diocese of Buffalo rejoices at the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, Bishop Michael Fisher said Thursday. Prevost, 69, was greeted by thousands of cheering ...

Thirteen previous leaders of the Catholic Church had gone by the name ... Leo sent a special greeting in Spanish "to my beloved Chiclayo diocese in Peru.' As a cardinal Prevost kept a low profile ...

On the eve of the Conclave, which will start on May 7, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and other countries. This was reported by the Ukrainian ...

The Catholic bishop of a New Jersey diocese said he would no longer oppose a state grand jury investigation of clergy sexual abuse that the church has been fighting behind closed doors in court ...

Call for Peace: In his first audience with the press as pontiff, Leo renewed his pleas for a more peaceful world and quoted ...