U.S. Catholic leaders are ending their church’s 50-year partnership with the federal government and seeking new ways to help refugees. Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S ...

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 ...

The role of women in the Catholic Church is a big issue 04:00. With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, many are wondering in what direction a new pope will take the Catholic Church.

Rachel Swarns' 'The 272' explores how the Catholic Church profited from slavery "You don't hear about enslaved people at Mass or in Sunday school," says Rachel Swarns. Her new book tells the story ...

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 ...

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.

Religions hold a variety of views toward IVF. Catholicism has one of the strongest negative judgments against the practice. Yet many in the church still use the procedure in order to have children.

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 ...

About 250 parishioners at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Libertyville, Ill., took part in a survey for the Synod on Synodality. The Rev. John Trout celebrated Mass on a Sunday morning.

Pope Francis said the Catholic Church's ban on sex for priests could be reviewed, saying the rule was "temporary" and there is “no contradiction for a priest to marry." Fox News Media; ...

The Catholic Church was, and still sometimes is, slow to embrace the LGBTQ+ community. I started my healthcare career as a pharmacist in the early '80s at the cusp of the AIDS epidemic.

Until the 1930s, the Catholic Church was not alone in its opposition to contraceptives. In the Christian tradition, birth control had long been associated with promiscuity and adultery, and ...