The Catholic Church is pushing back against a new law that was rushed through the legislature by Democrats over concerns of clergy, requiring priests to break the confidentiality of confession.

The sounds of an organ bellows across the pews of the hall of the St. Anne Catholic Church in Youngsville. Gold trimmed ceilings stretch high while stain glass paints the floor of the Gothic ...

Catholic churches across northern Lake County will merge over the next "several years" into four parishes, the Diocese of Gary said, in an effort to offset the impact of shrinking numbers of ...

Eastern Catholic leaders are remembering Pope Francis for bringing significant attention to their churches and traditions throughout his papacy, in a legacy marked by fraternity and many firsts, while ...

"And I think that's the start. You know, it's an incomplete project." The Catholic Church maintains that only men can be ordained as priests, viewing this not as a cultural tradition but as ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, presided over his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday in front of a crowd of tens of thousands. World leaders including Vice President JD Vance ...

Pope Leo XIV formally assumed his role as the first American-born leader of the global Catholic Church with a Mass in St. Peter's Square in Rome drawing tens of thousands of people, including ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV urged the Catholic Church to respond to artificial intelligence (AI) developments in his first formal speech to the College of Cardinals, the Vatican News reported. The pope shared ...

(photo: Courtesy of subjects) Beverly Willett Features April 26, 2025 Catholic converts wait and ponder, some longer than others. And, this spring, Americans flocked to the Church, including waves ...

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 ...

St. James Catholic Church in Hopewell, Virginia, suffered extensive fire damage on May 14. The fire, which occurred in the evening, was determined to be accidental following an investigation by ...