An accountant in the UK has successfully won a lawsuit against the Catholic diocese after she was sacked from her job for being non-Catholic. Janet Parker, 55, had a falling out with her boss ...

MARIA STEIN — There’s a chance crews might be able to save a historic church that went up in flames on Thursday. Crews were called to the fire at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Maria ...

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.

After two days of particular voting of cardinals in the Vatican City to find Pope Francis' successor, past midnight on Friday night in the Philippines, white smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel's ...

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 ...

Rome, Italy – When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, he faced loud calls to expand the role of women within the Roman Catholic Church. To some extent, he delivered.

In a ceremony earlier this month, Murray Chatlain walked into St. Mary's Cathedral to be ordained the Roman Catholic Church's eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Winnipeg. Just before walking ...

While the Church in the west struggles to maintain its heavy legacy of properties, in the southern continents it lacks the resources to build churches and schools fast enough for an expanding flock.

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 ...