Germany’s Catholic Church has sharply criticized a carnival float made for a big street parade in the western city of Cologne ...

The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is ...

The changes Francis brought to the papacy were more than skin deep. He opened the church to the outside world in ways none of ...

Bishop Ronald Hicks wrote St. Mary in Park Forest and St. Boniface in Monee will merge into St. Liborius Catholic Church in ...

The eyes of millions around the world are on Pope Francis who is reported to be in critical condition.

A little-remembered gathering in the 1960s could have stopped the problems which now batter the Church’s reputation, a new ...

While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

As Pope Francis remains in critical condition fighting a complex respiratory infection and double pneumonia, world and ...

Sheetz foes were absent from Tuesday’s meeting of the Roseville City Council, although city officials expected a crowd ...

Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

As Pope Francis remains in critical condition at Gemelli Hospital in Rome - still in charge of the Vatican and the worldwide ...