Washington state Senator Noel Frame has rejected the Catholic Church's claim that it would have to excommunicate priests who comply with her new child abuse reporting law.

The Catholic Church is against a new law that was pushed through by Democrats requiring priests to break the confidentiality of confession.

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report child abuse to law enforcement.

Catholics are putting church over state when it comes to a new law requiring priests to report confessions about child abuse — and the Department of Justice has their back.

With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, a lot of people are wondering in what direction a new pope will take the Catholic Church.

For more about how the Catholic Church will celebrate and mourn Pope Francis, and what comes next, Geoff Bennett spoke with special correspondent Malcolm Brabant.

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.

Pope Francis is being remembered as a pastoral leader – and in some ways, his treatment of women in the Catholic Church was unprecedented. But he could have done more.

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 ...

During elections, the Catholic Church has long shunned recommending political candidates to its faithful, but its influence extends beyond endorsements.

Born in 1991, an Italian boy will be proclaimed the Catholic Church's first saint of the millennial generation on April 27.

Building above an existing parking garage, GLUCK+, a New York City–based practice, has created an 8-story tower to house the WHIN Music Community Charter School. To reflect the centrality of ...