The assembly cast a 206-7 vote in favor of Sister Zervas and a 205-6 vote in favor of Barber, a laywoman, teacher, and ...

The Trump administration offers promise and peril for American Catholic leaders’ top policy concerns, which include abortion ...

The move was announced in a letter to parishioners of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Tyler, which has offered ...

The Vatican has unveiled a new mascot for the Catholic Church in the hope of engaging young people - a cartoon character named Luce. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the Vatican's chief organiser for ...

DUBAI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - The Israeli military issued a new evacuation warning on Wednesday for residents of a large area of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek and its 3,000-year-old Roman ruins.

the Vatican-appointed leadership of the Fort Worth diocese has dismissed a group of Arlington-based Carmelite nuns from their religious order, effectively classifying them as Catholic laypeople.

As pilgrims gather in Rome for the 13th annual "Summorum Pontificum" pilgrimage for those devoted to the traditional Latin Mass Oct. 25-27, traditionalist Catholics in France are discerning a new idea ...

Commonweal Catholics were educated, liberal-minded and middle-class, and aspired to assimilate into elite culture while ...

The opening of the Holy Door in the Roman prison will be a “symbol of ... a Holy Door in a prison in the history of jubilees in the Catholic Church, Pope Francis opened a “door of mercy ...

VATICAN CITY — A yearslong process to reform the Catholic Church closes Saturday ... discussions on women’s role is being run by the Roman curia, operating outside the synod.

BURLINGTON, Vt. — When Brenda Hannon heard the Roman Catholic diocese here had filed for bankruptcy on Oct. 1, her mind drifted back to St. Joseph’s Orphanage, the nuns, and the peanut butter ...