A man is facing charges for allegedly setting off an explosive on the altar of a Schuylkill County church, causing thousands ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost named first-ever American pontiff - The faithful cheered in the Vatican square, waving flags from ...

More than 130 Catholic cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, ...

Pope Leo XIV will begin his first full day as the new pontiff of the Catholic Church by celebrating Mass on Friday at the ...

Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

Despite this, women can still be nuns, altar servers, lectors and hold other leadership positions in the Catholic Church. If you believe the legend of Pope Joan, then yes, there has been a Popess.

The hymn implores the saints to help the cardinals find a new leader of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. They bowed before the altar and took ... their secret and sacred task ahead.

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

VATICAN CITY (TNND) — Cardinals have begun the centuries-old ritual to elect a new leader in the Catholic church after the ... died from a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday and was ...