Crews were called to the fire at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria Stein around 2:30 p.m., according to Joe Hartings, Chickasaw Volunteer Fire Department fire chief.

The Catholic Church, with its rich social teaching, vast network of institutions and commitment to human dignity, must lead the way. Our faith demands no less.

The Catholic church’s social service arm has long offered resources to women with unplanned or unwelcome pregnancies to give them alternatives to abortion, which the church’s leadership ...

The Catholic Church said 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 has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report information about child abuse to law enforcement -- even if given in the ...

A Pew Research survey in February found 59% of U.S. Catholics say the Church should allow women to become priests; however, the Catholic Church believes only men can be priests, in part because ...

Remembering Pope Francis, the Catholic Church leader who broke with tradition Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons. But he upheld it in other areas, such as abortion and celibacy for priests.

In his Face the Nation interview, Vance described himself as a “practicing” Catholic—that is, one who regularly attends church. Though polls suggest as many as 20 percent of American adults, or about ...

JD Vance's remarks and the new administration's hard-line immigration policies reveal a growing chasm between the MAGA movement and the Catholic Church.

The Metropolitan bishop of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church’s Thrissur Diocese Youhanon Mar Meletius in a Facebook post also condemned the disruption by VHP activists. In the post, the priest also ...

The Feast of the Seven Fishes tradition is also tied to the Catholic Church’s practice of not eating meat during certain times of the year — for example, on Fridays during Lent and on the eve ...