MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman will lie in state in the Minnesota Capitol rotunda on Friday while the man charged with killing her and her husband, and wounding a ...

Among the group there are engineers, a tech company founder and two future military chaplains. They range in age from 28 to 56. Most are U.S.-born, but some trace their roots to faraway countries with ...

(AP) — At a time when the U.S. Catholic Church is grappling with a severe shortage of priests ... without conscious thought, made the sign of the cross — a decidedly Catholic ritual. “I looked up and ...

In Spain, about a million people have participated in the annual pilgrimage honoring the Rocío Virgin, a Catholic icon of the Virgin Mary.

Catholic liberal arts colleges have turned toward traditional architecture when expanding to accommodate the numbers. Here are two examples.

The sun rising behind a stone cross atop the historic Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Robert Alexander/GETTY The Catholic League president added: "I am ...

Robert Prevost, first American-born pope in history of the Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV The smoke signal means the winner secured at least 89 votes of the 133 cardinals ...

The challenges for the Catholic Church in Chicago, where Robert Prevost grew up, are a microcosm of the gargantuan problems facing the worldwide Catholic Church that the new Pope Leo XIV must address.

New Ways Ministry, an organization that advocates for LGBTQ+ Catholics, said in a statement to USA TODAY that it "welcomes" Pope Leo XIV as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be ...