"Within the Catholic Church ... Canonical rites, which are of equal dignity, enjoy the same rights, and are under the same obligations. Although the particular churches possess their own hierarchy ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232 ... It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the 'hierarchy of the truths of faith'. [GCD 43.] ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pilgrims have been pouring into a medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s ...

excluded from the wealth bestowed upon the upper echelons of the Church hierarchy, often struggled to get by. When crowds began to gather in Paris on 13 July 1789, the religious house of Saint-Lazare ...

The Roman Empire gave its place to the Roman Catholic Church. Photo of the facade of the Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy. Credit: Alvesgaspar Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 When the Roman Empire ...

The former emblematic bishop of the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon in France discusses the deeper reasons for his recent departure ...

With the Lenten season just barely underway, the Canadian bishops' 'Journey Through Lent' video series is already drawing thousands of Catholic viewers. And based on the trendlines of the past several ...

The body of Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who died in 2006 of leukemia, lies in his tomb in Assisi, Italy, on Saturday, March 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) ...

Patrick's Day every March 17, the sad fact is that Patrick has never been canonized by the Catholic Church and is a saint in name only. As writer Ken Concannon stated: "There was no formal ...

The Conversation US asked Daniel Speed Thompson, a theologian at the University of Dayton, for some insight into Vatican City. The Vatican houses the central government of the Catholic Church and is ...

The Catholic Church needs to expand its safeguarding efforts to include the new threats and opportunities posed by artificial intelligence, top organizers of a Vatican conference said. Amid ...

And with a new generation of young Catholic women attempting to navigate a society increasingly marked by both radical feminism on the one hand and a reactionary ‘manosphere’ on the other ...