On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial" means of birth control. Condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps were defined as artificial, since they blocked ...

While the church is based on designs from churches in Italy, all the materials and craftsmen used when constructing Blessed Trinity were American. One of the most extraordinary features of the ...

It is often said that the Catholic Church “thinks in centuries,” but ... questions about orthodox doctrine to rulings from the Roman Curia. Gone, too, is the Latin Mass revival, which, to ...

Pope Leo XIII was the oldest pope to serve the Catholic church. He served until his death in 1903 at the age of 93. Pope Francis became the pope of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13 ...

Meanwhile, Pope Francis is the 266th pope to serve the Roman Catholic Church, and he assumed the papacy in 2013. He followed Pope Benedict XVI, who spearheaded the church from 2005 until he ...