In 2025, the Church honors a saint whose impact has only grown with time. One hundred years after her canonization, the ...

That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and politics and laid the foundation for modern Catholic social thought. His most famous encyclical ...

making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious ...

He brought Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 to serve as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations from around the world, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church.

was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church on Thursday. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV.

No wonder, then, that the nativity scene recently posted outside of Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis has inspired such a reaction. The Reverend Canon Lee Curtis had the statues of Jesus ...

The new earthly leader of the Roman Catholic Church has been chosen. That will soon be the scene, when the world's cardinals under the age of 80 gather to elect the successor of Pope Francis, who died ...

On the eve of the Conclave, which will start on May 7, the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and other countries. This was reported by the Ukrainian ...

(The aspiring virtual charter school is named after the Roman Catholic patron saint of students ... they’d “have to accept the teachings of the church with respect to certain principles.” ...

Several of the American cardinals who have served or are serving as diocesan bishops are acquainted with the institutional decline facing the Church in many parts of ... was an auxiliary bishop of The ...

All Roman Catholics are ... with the Eastern Orthodox Church and then again with the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents around the world.

The pope, the Bishop of Rome, is considered a successor to Saint Peter and holds authority over the Catholic Church ... Here's what to know. All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the ...