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He was widely seen as a conservative who was in line with Pope John Paul.

The Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, N.M., which filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018, said it has reached a $121.5 million settlement over nearly 400 claims of sexual abuse.

"Sins of the flesh are not the most serious," the 84-year-old religious leader said. Top transgressions instead include pride and hatred.

Two days ago Pope Francis blasted European countries over their border policies as tens of thousands of economic migrants are once again flooding into Europe. Francis visited refugees in Mytilene on Lesbos, Greece earlier this week. Francis said it's

The Catholic Church apologized "unequivocally" on Friday to Canada's indigenous peoples for a century of abuses at church-run residential schools set up by the government to assimilate children into the mainstream.But indigenous leaders are st

They share Roman Catholicism as a faith and California as their home base. Yet there's a deep gulf between Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego in the high-stakes debate over whether politicians who s

Pope Francis appeared to break from the Roman Catholic Church when he came out in support of same-sex civil unions — sparking curiosity Wednesday about whether his beliefs could be flawed. In his statement, The Holy Father proclaimed "we have to

Pope Francis endorsed gay civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for a feature-length documentary that made its premiere at the Rome Film Festival on Wednesday.Pope Francis endorsed gay civil unions for the first time as pope whil

Pope Francis, who canceled a Lent retreat for the first time in his papacy because he is suffering from a cold, has tested negative for coronavirus, the Italian newspaper Il Messaggero reported on Tuesday.'

Historian Father Peter Gumpel said the opening of the Vatican's "secret" archives will debunk the "fake news" generated over Pope Pius XII.

So, are churches in the United States taking any precautions to avoid the spread of coronavirus? On the level of individual dioceses, some are.

In a liturgical guideline, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) suggested that for Ash Wednesday ashes be sprinkled on the crown ...

A gathering of 181 bishops voted on 120 recommendations presented to the pontiff

Columnist Michelle Malkin says the Catholic Church is upset with her over her latest book, Open Borders, Inc: Who's Funding America's Destruction?, despite church officials not having read it yet.

Lead us not into temptation of changing the words in the Bible. Pope Francis has officially approved changes to some of the most famous verses in Holy Scripture, including the Lord's Prayer, in a revised third edition of the Italian Missal. The well-k

A Catholic priest was stabbed several times while leading mass on Friday morning in Montreal.

The Vatican might not be a place where you'd normally expect to hear about cutting-edge scientific research, but that was the case in April last year. Several hundred scientists, physicians, and policymakers gathered in Rome for the latest Internation

About 200 bishops, the heads of Catholic Conferences from around the world, and prominent clergy, are set to gather in Rome at the Vatican to begin an unprecedented summit on clergy abuse.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has been quoted in a soon-to-be published book as saying that having gays in the clergy "is something that worries me" and remarking that some societies are conside...

A Vatican official close to Pope Francis is blasting allegations that the leader of the Catholic Church helped cover up the sexual misconduct of an American cardinal, writing in a letter published Sunday that the claims are a "political set-up without