A leading U.S. Catholic bishop on Wednesday called on his fellow bishops to help revive the tradition of abstinence from meat ...

On Nov. 11, the Catholic Church honors St. Martin of Tours, who left his post in the Roman army to become a “soldier of ...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, which filed for bankruptcy last year in the wake of hundreds of child sex abuse lawsuits, said Sunday that it will create a survivors' trust to compensate ...

The elections at this year's U.S. bishops' conference meeting constituted a rejection of some of the more arch-conservative ...

Anglican leaders faced pressure Wednesday to speed up reforms following Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby's resignation ...

in broad terms the 2018 agreement calls for China to formally recognize the pope’s authority within the Roman Catholic Church and his final say over the country’s bishops. In turn, the Vatican ...

It's disappointing that so few Catholic leaders have joined San Juan Archbishop Roberto González Nieves in condemning a comedian's racist jokes at a Donald Trump rally, writes John Kenneth White.

As the U.S. bishops began their fall general assembly Nov. 11, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio urged his brother bishops to beg ...

Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical sexual abuse is reported adequately, Pope Francis’ ...

Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical ... Protection of Minors surveyed safeguarding protocols from bishops in 17 different parts of the world, along with how ...

A local congregation is celebrating a century of worship in their ornate church building, with a high-ranking special guest ...

VATICAN CITY – A new assistant Roman Catholic bishop for Beijing was ordained ... resolves a decades-long split between an underground church swearing loyalty to the Vatican and the state ...