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

Perhaps the most spectacular of all is the Vatican, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, that holds such treasures as the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museums. Cappadocia's surreal ...

Perhaps the most spectacular of all is the Vatican, the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church, that holds such treasures as the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museums. Cappadocia's surreal ...

A trove of emails shows the team’s leadership using its influence in New Orleans to aid the archdiocese, including writing ...

As a Catholic, Vance said, the criticism left him “heartbroken.” Then he hit out at the church for its role in garnering hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts to serve immigrants over ...

Two years after a devastating fire, a historic church in Kansas is rebuilt and rededicated, as the faithful rally to cover ...

Father Zvonimir Pavicic, OFM, welcomed the recent Vatican recognition of the spiritual phenomenon at Medjugorje as a call to ...

Video from the church shows a man sitting in a pew before rushing the sanctuary and appearing to throw a punch at Father ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory — where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...

The Vatican's top diplomat met with papal representatives to various Middle Eastern countries to discuss possible avenues toward peace in the region and the state of the Catholic Church there.