A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.

The Catholic Church has entered a year of sweeping changes in the Roman Curia and cardinalate both at the Vatican and around ...

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first ...

What happens when a pope is incapacitated? Is he still pope? Pope Francis' age and prolonged illness have raised questions ...

An employment tribunal has ruled against a Catholic teacher who sued an Anglican secondary school in Wales that fired him for ...

The woman remained in the sanctuary, actively participated in the consecration of the Eucharist and received Communion.

Tribunal backs school’s handling of teacher’s expression of religious views - Teacher Ben Dybowski was sacked having shared ...

A Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart also included a display highlighting African American candidates for sainthood and the huge church's first-ever liturgical dance.

ANALYSIS: The country is facing many socio-political ills that Church leaders and others link to a spiritual vacuum but signs ...

Christians are called to follow Jesus and reject coercive forms of religious and political power, to live lives of love and wisdom.

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan priest had his license revoked by the Anglican Catholic Church after he made a gesture that "many have interpreted as a pro-Nazi salute" while speaking at the ...