The Vatican announced this week that its College of Cardinals will convene on May 7 for the conclave process at the famed Sistine Chapel – where they'll elect Pope Francis' successor as leader of the ...

After decades of declining attendance and dwindling faith in much of the Western world, Roman Catholicism could be witnessing ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s newly named Roman Catholic cardinal said Monday that he hopes for reconciliation and wants the city to give young people more hope following the economic downturn and a ...

A Roman Catholic priest and a psychiatrist have written a book that may solve, or at least clarify, some of the tension between their callings. Dr. Robert P. Odenwald, once a Berlin psychiatrist, now ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis started the countdown on Thursday to the 2025 Holy Year, or Jubilee, which is one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important events and is expected to draw tens of ...

At a time when our politics is openly hostile to LGBTQ+ rights, communities like New Ways Ministries are offering a vision of religion not as judgment but as sanctuary.

Softballs were lofting, basketballs thumping, swimming pools sloshing. People ranging from kids to grandmas were learning ballroom dancing, bird watching, guitar playing, oil painting, cake baking and ...

Artificial intelligence, the technology upending nearly every corner of society, is creeping into religion, serving up ...

ROME (AP) — Researchers from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust research institute and Rome’s Jewish community released the findings at an academic workshop Thursday.