Clergy members across the Archdiocese of Baltimore abused hundreds of children and teenagers over the course of six decades, abetted by a church hierarchy that systematically failed to investigate and ...

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 ...

Francis fashioned a profoundly reformist papacy, deeply divisive within the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis is silhouetted at the end of a private audience with the President of Equatorial Guinea ...

Pope Francis gives some sweets to a musician during a welcome ceremony in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on Sept. 7, during his recent trip to Asia and the Pacific. (Photo: AFP) Most of us have grown ...

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 ...

New regulations forbade the participation of priests in social events such as dances and horse races, and led to an upsurge in attendance at mass ...

Editor's note: According to a 2008 Pew Research study, one of 10 U.S. adults is a former Catholic. Some have moved on to other denominations, others have no church affiliation at all, still others ...

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 ...

BEIJING (AP) — Hong Kong’s Roman Catholic bishop on Friday said he had invited the leader of the Communist Party-controlled group for Catholics in mainland China to visit his city, in a symbolic ...

The Roman Catholic Church urges its faithful to confess their sins to a priest at least once a year, and insists that they do so before receiving Communion if they have committed a mortal sin. In ...