ROME — Another woman is taking over a top management job in the Vatican: Sister Raffaella Petrini, an Italian nun, was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State, making her essentially the ...

Six young people who lived with deep faith and committed their lives to the Church that Jesus founded are on their way to ...

Sites include a church in Hillcrest, and a church and a synagogue in Bankers Hill, as well as an altar outside a private ...

The Carmelite church at Whitefriar Street in Dublin is an unlikely but popular pilgrimage site for couples, who can venerate ...

Archbishop Charles Thompson has designated the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln at Saint Meinrad Archabbey as a pilgrimage site for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis during the Jubilee Year of ...

The latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

The Archdiocese of Cincinnati and the Dioceses of Sioux City, Iowa, and Norwich, Connecticut, all received new appointments.

The Archdiocese of Seoul in South Korea has reached “ the era of 1,000 priests ” upon ordaining 26 new priests for the local ...

"We don't go in and build houses. We don't go in and dig ditches. We go in and talk to the Haitian people about what their ...

David Tudor (l), who has now been banned for life from the Church of England, was pictured talking to Stephen Cottrell, then Bishop of Chelmsford, in 2014 A woman who says she was sexually abused ...

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory — where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...

The Catholic Church spent over $1 billion to cover costs related to clergy sexual abuse in the past 50 years, and is likely to spend more on the hundreds of still unsettled claims. According to a ...