NEWARK − The Rev. David Sizemore, pastor at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church for eight years, told parishioners Sunday in a tear-filled homily he will leave the parish to become pastor at ...

The pope and the president remade the Catholic church and American politics in their outsider images, but their relationship was defined by their remarkable clashes. By Lisa Lerer and Elizabeth ...

Pope Leo XIV pledged to align himself with “ordinary people” and against the rich and powerful as he presided over his first Mass as leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics on Friday, and called ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican announced.

Although the indult has long since expired, the tradition continues, deeply woven into local custom despite lacking official recognition from the Church ... called the Convento de la Asunción ...

Those over 80 can’t vote but can participate in pre-conclave meetings, known as general congregations, in which church problems are discussed. It was in these meetings in 2013 that then-Cardinal ...

The Italian bishops were so confident that he would be chosen that after the white smoke emerged from the Vatican chimney, a senior Italian church official sent a message to reporters expressing ...

A long-awaited excavation by Italian archaeologists has finally taken place beneath the floors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The church is believed to have been built in part u ...

Pope Francis nominated Farrell in 2019 to be the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church with the responsibility of administering the property and revenues of the Holy See. In 2020, Francis also ...

Pope Francis, the head of the Roman Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88. Francis had been in a critical condition in hospital in Rome receiving treatment for double pneumonia before being ...

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The Igreja de São Francisco looks rather plain on the ... vaulted ceilings and walls of this church, which started to take shape in 1245. A traveler favorite amid the luster is the Tree of ...