Bishops forced to resign. Attorneys general opening investigations. The Pope himself under fire. One historian calls it the church’s worst crisis since the Reformation. Here’s how 2018 got so ...

Ms. Swarns is a contributing writer for The Times and the author of “The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church.” For more than a century, Catholic ...

Roman Catholic US Catholic Church under explicit attack, archbishop warns — but says there's hope Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of the Archidiocese of San Francisco says Catholic leaders and ...

The Catholic Church is facing its most serious crisis in 500 years. In these last few months, a new wave of clerical sexual abuse revelations left the world in shock. From Australia to Chile to ...

Well, it was bound to happen eventually: the Catholic Church is preparing to canonize the first-ever gamer saint: Blessed Carlo Acutis, aka "God's Influencer." ...

He has suggested the church might, in the future, allow women to be ordained into the ministry. Among other roles in church leadership, Tobin was appointed to the top Catholic court in 2021.

Although the Church criticized the slave trade in Africa, Catholic leaders were slow to support the abolition of slavery in the United States—“so opposed were they to the individualist (at ...

Nevertheless, pressure has been building for the Catholic Church to consider the blessings of same-sex unions and in Germany several priests have already begun holding ceremonies blessing gay couples.

A growing number of young people are turning to the Catholic Church from other denominations, religions, and even no faith at all. Some dioceses are reporting year-over-year increases in new ...