Allentown Bishop Alfred Schlert announced new clergy assignments Sunday in the diocese. The annual assignments are designed to meet the needs of the diocese’s 78 parishes, as well as needs at colleges ...

Five Catholic churches have been put on the market. They, and others closed, can still be used for weddings and funerals ...

Parishioners at one church in Luzerne County will soon have to find a new place to worship as the Diocese of Scranton ...

The ceremony May 14 that closed the academic year at the seminary at its new campus is the last for Auxiliary Bishop Keith ...

Mary Theresa Petrich recalled walking from Hatfield Street in Lawrenceville over the 40th Street Bridge and up the hill to St ...

When it came time for American Legion Post 123, Lansford, to present its 2024 Tom Dobosh Memorial Lansford Person of the Year ...

run by St. Peter's Catholic Church, 433 W. Church Street, have been following the procedure of the papal selection and eagerly awaiting its result. Now it's here. White smoke evaporated in the air ...

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.

Nowhere in the world is the Roman Catholic Church growing faster than in Africa, a continent Francis showered with attention. By Elian Peltier Reporting from Dakar, Senegal When Pope Francis ...

A young girl celebrates Pope Francis as he appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13, 2013, at the Vatican.

Thought to be of Berber origin, Pope Victor I was in charge of the Catholic Church at a time when Christians were sometimes being persecuted by Roman officials for refusing to worship Roman gods.

They were men gifted with great minds and pastoral hearts, communicating the Gospel and the Catholic faith to all humanity with unfailing concern for souls. "Yet, each man was also conscious of ...