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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 instructed his followers to “suffer little children” is therefore now better ...

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 ...

Francis had led the Roman Catholic church since Benedict XVI resigned in 2013. Born in Argentina, he is the first pope from the southern hemisphere, and the only non-European pope in nearly 1,300 ...

Thomas Bokenkotter’s “A Concise History of the Catholic Church” is a comprehensive yet accessible overview of one of the world’s most influential religious institutions.