The first Catholic convert elected to the vice presidency has provoked an extraordinary string of conflicts within the church ...

The situation remains complicated, the restrictions applied to all religions in China also apply to Catholicism, but the bilateral agreement has helped Chinese Catholics to continue practicing ...

There are only seven women in the world currently given "the privilege of the white" while meeting the Pope: the seven current Catholic queens and princesses. Those royals are Spain's Queen Sofia ...

At 103 years of age, Mexican Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra is a living witness to the history of the Catholic ...

The Sodalitium of Christian Life, a powerful ultraconservative Catholic group dissolved by Pope Francis on January 14 due to ...

Three ideological currents – ultraconservative Christians, national-populists and techno-libertarians – though often at odds, ...

It was founded by St. Peter in Rome around 42 A.D. The current Eucharistic ... until Pope John Paul II appointed a Major Archbishop in 1992. All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal ...

Preparations for widely popular Lent and Holy Week processions are underway across Latin America – but not in Nicaragua ...

At a JRS USA-sponsored conference late last month, Kevin Appleby, former director of migration policy for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and current ... response from Pope Francis himself.

Pope Francis greets the crowds in St Peter's Square, Vatican (Reuters) The Roman Catholic Church promotes itself as the ‘one true church’, largely based off their suggested succession of the Apostle ...