Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

1775: Angelo Braschi is chosen as Pope Pius VI. 1804: New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery. 1852: Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children in London admits its first patient ...

Not as widely known in the United States as St. Valentine are two other saints at the top of the list on Feb. 14, and recent ...

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

The pope has closely followed the response of U.S. prelates to the president's attacks on migrants and he expects them to ...

Pope Francis addressed the bishops of the United States on Tuesday about the mass deportation of unauthorised immigrants, ...

Pope Francis addressed the bishops of the United States Feb. 11 about the country’s ongoing mass deportation of unauthorized ...

Francis emphasized that immigration laws and policies should be subordinated to the dignified treatment of people, especially ...

In his newly released memoir, Hope, the story of the world that made Jorge Mario Bergoglio — and, by extension, the world ...

In 1964, Pope Paul VI met with Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople in Jerusalem. “For the first time in centuries of separation,” explains Father Kazarian, “official relations resumed ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla will make a State Visit to the Holy See in April. It is an historic moment as the Supreme ...

Since it became independent in 1929, Vatican City has been the world’s smallest state. Every evening the gates close, leaving ...