As the health of Pope Francis remains a critical concern, attention in the Catholic world is shifting toward the future leadership of the Church. With the pontiff grappling with ...

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

Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first ...

Members of London's Catholic community say they're praying in solidarity for Pope Francis as the 88-year-old pontiff is still ...

What happens when a pope is incapacitated? Is he still pope? Pope Francis' age and prolonged illness have raised questions ...

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more ...

Seven churches have been targeted in a suspected arson attack that occurred overnight in New Zealand. Four churches in the ...

Since the ceiling of a historical church in Salvador, Bahia state, fell and killed a tourist on Feb. 5, government agencies have already shut down 12 churches in the city under risk of collapsing.

An employment tribunal has ruled against a Catholic teacher who sued an Anglican secondary school in Wales that fired him for ...

COMMENTARY: A true Catholic cathedral, functioning as God’s divine presence in the world, serves as a summons to ...

The woman remained in the sanctuary, actively participated in the consecration of the Eucharist and received Communion.