Italian nun Sister Raffaella Petrini was named Saturday as president of the Vatican City State. That makes her essentially ...

Vasquez, bishop of Austin, has appointed Paulist Fr. Brad Schoeberle, C.S.P., the new pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Catholic ...

Bishop David Tencer, known for his Capuchin beard, talks about the diversity of the Catholic flock in Reykjavik and why the ...

The latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

The human quest for transcendence and meaning has not disappeared with modernity, but has adapted to the evolving cultural ...

New leader of Catholic Church in Detroit calls to 'see Christ' in migrants. Bishop Edward Weisenburger will become Archbishop of Detroit next month. Archbishop Allen Vigneron has led the Detroit ...

A 28-year old man who fled the war in Syria was among the victims of a school shooting in Sweden earlier this week. Salim ...

PA School Bus Crash Kills Man Decades Later: Coroner A man who was struck by a school bus more than two decades ago in Allentown has died, surrounded by family, the Lehigh County Coroner's Office ...

NYU Wrestling Captain Battles Brain Cancer With Unbreakable Spirit Benny Bautista isn’t new to tough battles. The 21-year-old captain of the NYU wrestling team and Paramus Catholic grad has spent ...

The new policy ... than a threat because the church is here to serve the people. It is not about us. It is about the community that comes to us. We are worried as Catholic Charities, when ...

The Vatican announced this week that Pope Francis has erected a new diocese in China and appointed ... He was ordained on Jan. 20 at the Cathedral Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

In his tantalising, intriguing, and sometimes frustrating new ... Church can expect. The painfully messy Anglican experience in this connection is still anything but resolved. The Roman Catholic ...