While many Catholic leaders in Nigeria are concerned about the influence of Pentecostalism, Catholics in the southeastern parts of the country are concerned about another trend. In rural parts of the ...

Similarly, Social media commentator Ian Miles Cheong said: “The Pope blesses a slab of ice and then just lingers there while a bunch of communist weirdos prance around in some pagan Earth-worship ...

The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic history with absolutely no certainty about who or what comes next. Rather than reflexively corralling ...

Editor’s update (April 21st, 2025): This story has been updated with the news that Pope Francis has died. AFTER MONTHS of ill health Pope Francis died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday. Francis had ...

About 5 miles from my apartment, there is an old church that was built on a fifth-century Roman mausoleum in what is now the ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Massimo Faggioli, professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University — the new Pope's alma mater — about the direction the Catholic Church will likely ...

The College of Cardinals will convene on May 7th at the Sistine Chapel to elect Pope Francis' successor. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity, differing from other branches primarily in ...

A new pope will be selected to lead the Catholic Church following the death of Pope Francis. The pope is chosen during a highly secretive election called a conclave. Francis, 88, died on April 21. The ...

Francis captured the imaginations of believers and non-believers alike. Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of ...

Prospect Park, North Haledon, Haledon, and Paterson. Established on July 25, 1925, Saint Paul’s began as a humble mission of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Paterson. Over the decades, it blossomed into ...