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

The pope, in a previously unannounced move, came out to the square shortly before noon at the end of the celebration of a ...

Vatican City: Pope Francis’s convalescence has revived memories of the painful end of John Paul II’s life, highlighting the ...

In a letter to America’s bishops, Pope Francis last month decried ... Start with the incident that prompted the current intra-Catholic dispute over immigration: a back-and-forth between the ...

The head of the Catholic Church returned home ... Pope is still very much in control, despite his current physical fragility. “At the end, Pope John Paul II was so unwell that it was said ...

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 ...

In 1990, as Argentina's Jesuits were divided over the church's role in the country's politics and society, frustration with the future Pope Francis ... church to view the current Lenten season ...

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 ...

An Oklahoma man charged Friday with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Catholic priest wrote letters to a ...

And some popes have closed their eyes to not just current events but past ones ... printing press and the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Counter-Reformation, which took shape at the Council ...