Pope Leo XIV was elected as the Catholic Church's 267th leader on Thursday. The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, has died on Easter Monday, at the age of 88, the Vatican has announced.

The letter instructed the church to fill out a “Church Tax Inquiry Questions” form. Lawyers from the First Liberty Institute say the investigation was later closed.

One fated Halloween, 500 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Castle in a dramatic act of defiance against the Catholic Church. Or, he may have just hung it on ...

The Catholic Church bought the building in 2011 and spent the past two years transforming the space, from the installation of 11,000 sail-shaped quatrefoil window shades that also help with the ...

Five hundred years ago, a humble German friar challenged the Catholic church, sparked the Reformation, and plunged Europe into centuries of religious strife. By Josep Palau Orta October 11, 2017 ...

In GSS surveys conducted in the early 2000s (2000 to 2004), 80% of U.S. adults identified as Christians, including 54% who described themselves as Protestants and 25% who were Catholic. By the late ...

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of a Wisconsin-based Catholic charity in a case about religious tax exemptions, finding that the state engaged in unconstitutional 'unnecessary ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a Catholic Charities chapter in Wisconsin to secure an exemption from certain state taxes in a decision that could expand the type of religious ...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 6, 2025 / 16:11 pm President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating an “anti-Catholic law” in Washington state that threatens priests with ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on June 5 said Wisconsin should not have denied a tax exemption to a Catholic Charities chapter, the latest in a series of rulings the justices have decided in ...

Under the law of the Catholic church, he argued, the group and its subentities are in fact “an arm” of the diocese. And when the state supreme court failed to recognize this structure, he concluded, ...