More than 200 state-run secondary schools in the Republic of Ireland will begin to phase out historical Catholic symbols and mandatory Masses, Irish sources have reported. The new regulations apply to ...

A Roman Catholic organization is condemning the Department of Justice (DOJ) for what it claims is a lackluster approach to investigating an ongoing trend of violence against Catholic symbols after a ...

A Catholic church in New Haven, Connecticut, Thursday morning was found defaced with Satanic symbols, according to church leadership. The church, which houses the congregation of St. Mary’s, where the ...

Balance to be used in the display of multi-denominational religious symbols as Catholic symbols to be phased out and Masses no longer compulsory. New Education and Training Board rules will see over ...

The coming generation of Catholic parents are likely to look for a strong sense of Catholic identity in Catholic schools.

One priest believes ‘that prayers and priestly blessings are always the appropriate response to vandalization of holy things and images of saints.’ Catholics gathered last month to defend a statue of ...

Mobsters who sport Catholic symbols aren’t actually good fellas, according to the pope. A new Vatican group backed by Pope Francis is taking a whack at stopping Mafia members from exploiting the ...

Vandals decapitated a statue of the Virgin Mary outside of a Catholic church in Toronto on Sunday. The staff of Our Lady of Lebanon church in Toronto, Canada, discovered the beheaded statue. The ...

SÃO PAULO, Brazil – A poster of a theater play to be presented by students of a Catholic university in Lima, which combines religious symbols with the figure of a man wearing female clothes, is ...

(RNS) — 'Did they single out the Catholic Church, or is it simply that our symbols of religion are so visible that they make an easy target?' said Aaron M. Weldon, of the USCCB's Office of Religious ...