Bishop Edward Scharfenberger is scheduled to announce new leadership at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany on Monday, ...

VATICAN CITY, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday named 20 new cardinals to the elite group at the top of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, including 15 who are under 80 and will be allowed to enter ...

Bishop-designate Mark O’Connell says his experience navigating one of the Catholic Church’s darkest chapters has prepared him ...

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 ...

A Vatican commission for the protection of children has said the mishandling by the Catholic Church’s leaders of sexual abuse ...

Imagine that you are an organization that is obsessed with sex, and you have been for a long time, often in unhealthy ways. Now imagine that you are suddenly in a sex scandal on a global scale that ...

(The Conversation) — The Catholic Church opposes assisted suicide and euthanasia, but it also doesn’t support treatments that prolong suffering in the face of unavoidable death. By contrast “assisted ...

At a glance, Spirit of Grace church in Beaverton might appear to be just one of many progressive Protestant churches, not unusual in the Pacific Northwest. Its website and featured introduction video ...

Fear and uncertainty, but also an invincible devotion to God, permeated a Roman Catholic Church in Riverhead where hundreds of immigrants gathered for Sunday Mass despite President Donald Trump’s ...