Father James Power, pastor of St. Joseph Church and St. Anthony of Padua, both Roman Catholic parishes in Sharon, talks while ...

The papacy is a global platform, so the issues Pope Leo chooses to focus on can resonate far beyond the church.

For Catholic fundamentalists, to break faith with the church hierarchy is to break faith with, well, the faith. A few separate from the church, either voluntarily or by ecclesiastical edict ...

In a ceremony earlier this month, Murray Chatlain walked into St. Mary's Cathedral to be ordained the Roman Catholic Church's eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Winnipeg. Just before ...

Pope Francis, who has died aged 88 after 12 years at the head of the Catholic Church, was probably the most famous Argentinian who ever lived. Born in 1936 as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis ...

Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's 266th pontiff, was the first Jesuit to lead the church in its nearly 2,000-year history. More than 200,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square April 26 to ...

The Supreme Court is deciding whether the Catholic Church can run the nation’s first religious charter school. The dioceses say Oklahoma’s ban on using public funds to support sectarian ...

What direction should the Catholic Church take under the next pope? The late pontiff’s emphasis on social and economic justice, advocacy for migrants and openness to debate on homosexuality and ...

People visit the Baoding Catholic church in Baoding, China's northern Hebei province on April 22, 2025. Adek Berry—AFP/ Getty Images Reporter When Pope Francis died on Monday, governments around ...

His papacy was transformative in shaping a Catholic Church that was not focused ... This raised concerns within the Church hierarchy and among western governments during the cold war.

The bureaucrats bristled at the Pope’s recent draconian moves: Since 2021, he'd slashed salaries for the Church’s 250-odd cardinals three times. In 2023, he nixed the rich housing subsidies ...

The Catholic Church mourns Pope Francis's death after almost 12 years of service. Saint Peter is historically known as the longest-serving pope. Pius IX, John Paul II, and Leo XIII also had long ...