Sub-Saharan Africa has the world's highest school dropout rates and a driving factor is that parents are being crushed by ...

Restoration efforts are underway after a historic Catholic church caught fire last month. >>PHOTOS: Smoke, flames pour from ...

Church officials say a Nigerian Catholic priest who recently served the United States has been abducted by extremists along with other travelers in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state ...

“It was the most electric thing I have ever experienced inside the walls of a Catholic church,” one protester recalls. “It was the most electric thing I have ever experienced inside the ...

The Catholic Church’s first pope from the Augustinian order is already helping to educate the faithful through his deep knowledge of the Church Fathers. Here is who he has been citing in the ...

I’m not a Catholic. Nor am I a theologian by any means. But it strikes me as strange that our society strives to mold the church in its image – centuries of tradition and deeply held beliefs ...

VATICAN CITY — Leaders of the Eastern Catholic Churches have enthusiastically welcomed an address that Pope Leo XIV gave on Wednesday in which he extolled their liturgies and encouraged members ...

Philosopher Simone Weil, drawn to the mystery of the Catholic Church without ever formally entering it, came to a similar conclusion: “The beautiful is the experimental proof that the ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. Vice President JD ...

The Church in the Netherlands is gaining momentum thanks to the “creative minority” of young people rediscovering the Catholic faith, Cardinal Willem Eijk said. Though Eijk considers the ...

Even as Pope Leo XIV’s profile as a humble champion of the disenfranchised takes shape, a looming question is how he will approach the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis while leading a ...

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