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 ...

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

Representatives from global Catholic lay movements who gathered near the Vatican, urged synod delegates to address ...

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 ...

All the seats for the Sunday Mass Pope Francis will celebrate September ... professor of theology at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain). “It’s surprising; there’s an excitement ...

Encouraging greater "synodal" practices in the Catholic Church should help the church find a greater balance between the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington said he hopes U.S. voters who are as concerned as he is about the ...