A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first ...

The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

Pope Francis was conscious but still receiving high flows of supplemental oxygen Sunday following a respiratory crisis and ...

Members of London's Catholic community say they're praying in solidarity for Pope Francis as the 88-year-old pontiff is still ...

Seven churches have been targeted in a suspected arson attack that occurred overnight in New Zealand. Four churches in the ...

Since the ceiling of a historical church in Salvador, Bahia state, fell and killed a tourist on Feb. 5, government agencies have already shut down 12 churches in the city under risk of collapsing.

ANGLICAN Primates are calling for the immediate cessation of hostilities in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), ...

An employment tribunal has ruled against a Catholic teacher who sued an Anglican secondary school in Wales that fired him for ...

COMMENTARY: A true Catholic cathedral, functioning as God’s divine presence in the world, serves as a summons to ...