Massive mobs stand in front of the Basilica Papale Santa Maria Maggiore (a Catholic Church of special importance ... stands holding the gold ciborium housing the tiny little bodies of Christ.

Bishop McManus will ordain new priests at St. Paul’s Cathedral, and June 2, the world will celebrate the Solemnity of Corpus ...

Mass may be offered for any end or intention that tends to the honor and glory of God, to the good of the Church or the welfare ... Tabernacle and what is the Ciborium? A. The Tabernacle is ...

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Rome, Italy – When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, he faced loud calls to expand the role of women within the Roman Catholic Church. To some extent, he delivered. Francis opened key meetings ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

The Catholic Church and federal government reacted vehemently to new legislation in Washington state that requires priests to report child abuse or neglect to law enforcement after learning about ...

Joe Biden, who was the second Catholic U.S. president, told CNN he expects Pope Leo XIV, a friend of Pope Francis, to “keep moving the church in the direction to be more ecumenical and reaching ...

(This, even as Catholics overall said the Church is more in touch now after Francis' papacy compared to before it.) One reason why those who feel the Catholic Church is out of touch with their own ...

The papal name of the Catholic Church’s new leader will be revealed shortly after he is elected by his fellow cardinals at the conclave, the voting process which begins on Wednesday.

NIGEL AND SYDNEY, WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PERHAPS POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE U.S.? I SPOKE TO HISTORIAN AT FURMAN UNIVERSITY AS HE BREAKS IT ALL DOWN.

As cardinals from Myanmar to Malta ready themselves for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis sought to drag ...