The renewal comes days after a report from the Hudson Institute detailed how seven Catholic bishops in China have been ...

On Tuesday Vatican and Chinese authorities announced that they had extended a controversial agreement on episcopal ...

Catholicism appears poised to play a decisive role in the presidential race — and perhaps the next presidency. Both campaigns ...

Nothing but standing room remained inside Holy Rosary Church for Monday’s Mass celebrating 80 years since the Catholic ...

The Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) is preparing to welcome Pope Francis—and not just once, but twice. The pope will visit the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL) in Flanders September ...

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Pope Francis has called upon Church authorities to cooperate with civil authorities in relation to child sexual abuse by ...

At the current synod, whose purpose is to address “communion, participation, and mission” in the church, women’s role is on ...

In a year characterized by disruption and division at the national and local levels, the normally formulaic annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation reflected the general unease of the ...

Pope Francis received in a private audience President Joseph Nyuma Boakai the Vatican Apostolic Palace today, underscoring ...

Former President Donald Trump used the Al Smith dinner to highlight Vice President Kamala Harris’ “deeply disrespectful” ...

"The synod is wrestling with how to permit pastoral differences between the churches while guaranteeing the pope's authority ...