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.

In its bid for drama, the film caricatures the Catholic Church and the men who lead it as political animals akin to the most ruthless politicians in Washington, D.C., London, or Brussels.

Pope Francis, who has died aged 88 after 12 years at the head of the Catholic Church, was probably the most famous Argentinian who ever lived. Born in 1936 as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis ...

Cardinals look on as the body of Pope Francis is transferred into the Basilica at St Peter’s Square in Vatican City. The late pope’s reforms reflected a profound view of the Church’s purpose ...

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the Catholic Church around the world, has died at the age of 88. The Vatican said Pope ...

David Ng held back tears as he approached the stone steps of North America’s largest Roman Catholic Church, its bells tolling in the Monday midday gloom. The news of Pope Francis’s death had ...

Pope Francis sought to make the church more welcoming ... to recognize one another’s rights and protect vulnerable Catholic minorities. But all of the progress Francis sought to make in his ...

A Catholic church in Queens was engulfed in flames less than 24 hours before worshippers were set to gather for Easter Sunday mass. The fire broke out at Saint Edmund Church of the Holy Trinity ...

In contrast, the Roman Catholic Church—whose members comprise nearly 80% of the population—does not officially endorse any political candidate. EDSA Shrine Rector and Catholic Bishops ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An article in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) mouthpiece, Organiser, has said that it is not the Waqf Board but the Catholic Church of India which is the largest ...

Federal and local authorities are investigating a possible hate crime after a Catholic Church named after St. Patrick was discovered with “extensive vandalism,” including a Satanic message ...

Ever wonder how many popes there have been in the Catholic Church? With news of Pope Francis' health on the minds of many around the world, the line of papal succession has become a topic of ...