The Vatican announced it will carry out an apostolic visitation to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, an institution whose ...

I don’t think God would speak to me only through the voice of a priest.'” The young woman’s elders, said Hidalgo, were ...

Angolan Cardinal Alexandre do Nascimento, the world's oldest cardinal, died Sept. 28 at the age of 99 and was praised by Pope ...

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"The Lord summons us out of the small places in which we have taken refuge and in which we have imprisoned others." ...

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A woman is more important than a man, but it is terrible when a woman wants to be a man: No, she is a woman,” the pope had ...

Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops to be more transparent and aggressive in combatting child sex abuse in the Church during ...

VATICAN— The Vatican on Tuesday unveiled the theme of the next international World Youth Day — which will be in Seoul, South ...

Calling on the world's bishops not to cover up any instance or form of abuse, Pope Francis said the evil of abuse must be ...

Sabrina Carpenter suggested a scandalous video filmed in a Brooklyn church led to Adams' indictment as a monsignor is under investigation.

"Today, words alone do not suffice. We also need concrete steps," De Croo told Francis and an audience of royals, church ...