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 ...

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 ...

The commission’s report highlights the difficulties Pope Leo faces in trying to end clerical abuses and ensure abusers are held to account. By Elisabetta Povoledo In San Juan, the Museo de los Santos ...

Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly ...

Archbishop William E. Lori delivers a homily after he is installed as the 16th Archbishop of Baltimore during a Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore in 2012.Steve Ruark/AP A report ...

The head of the Spanish Catholic bishops conference says Pope Leo XIV could soon accept the resignation of an ailing Spanish ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV has accepted the resignation of an ailing Spanish bishop who is under church investigation for allegedly ...