Thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square on a chilly, rainy evening to pray for an ailing Pope Francis.

Time-honored rituals, drafted and refined over centuries, allow time for mourning and provide order at a dramatic moment of ...

Pension collapses at church-affiliated hospitals and other organizations upend retirees’ plans ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks wrote St. Mary in Park Forest and St. Boniface in Monee will merge into St. Liborius Catholic Church in ...

Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has held his title for 12 years. What to know about the Jesuit.

While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

Armed men stabbed a Catholic priest to death while he was alone inside a church last week in the northwest Sagaing region of ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

You might think that an administration that has made 'religious liberty' a battle cry would respect the mission of the nation ...

Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

Bishop Daniel E. Thomas on Monday called for Catholics in Toledo to join in communion with others of the faith around the ...