Pope Francis has been known for his down-to-earth leadership, support of marginalized communities and interreligious dialogue ...

As Pope Francis, the oldest pope in over a century, continues to decline in health, speculation is percolating as to who will ...

Jack O’Connell, a former Catholic priest and the retired CEO of the Health & Welfare Council of Long Island said of any ...

When we narrate the history of the church from the perspective of Black nuns,” says historian Shannen Dee Williams, “myths ...

In 1968, out of the blue, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen announced he was giving away St. Bridget’s Parish – church, convent, and school – to the government.

The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

The oldest document in which we find the length ... The liturgical form of Advent as it now exists in the Roman Church has gone through certain modifications. St. Gregory seems to have been ...

Because of the danger of being accused of proselytism, the use of Farsi—the Persian language—is prohibited in Catholic churches ... Acerbi becomes one of the oldest cardinals created by ...

A simple act of giving and love from students at the oldest Catholic school in downtown Columbia made for a heartwarming ...

Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome as doctors treat a worsening respiratory infection that the Vatican has described ...

Pope Francis is currently the oldest pope in an entire century, but his health is constantly declining and there are already ...