The Quiapo Church invited the Catholic faithful to take part in a mass honoring the late Pope Francis this Saturday. In a Super Radyo report on dzBB, Mao dela Cruz said the mass is to commemorate and ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

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 ...

beginning preparations to set a date for the secret conclave that will elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church. An announcement regarding the date could come around midday (1000 GMT ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "Purgatory:" 1031. "The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment ...

Today, the top official is an MIT grad who has spent a long career in management positions for Catholic universities and prominent institutions of the church. Tighter oversight brought new ...

The pope also defied ultra-conservative Catholics when he encouraged the church to be more welcoming of Catholic divorcees and same-sex couples. He regularly promoted women in the church.

Women deacons could also bolster the church’s presence in schools, hospitals and prisons, along with providing leaders for Catholic communities. Church leaders in the Amazon, where priests are ...

MICHELLE WAKIM, REPORTER: After 12 years as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis died on Easter Monday 2025 at the age of 88. THE VATICAN: Dearest brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow ...

In an interview at Easter, the President of the German Bundestag Julia Klöckner (CDU) criticized the churches for commenting too frequently on current issues. Instead of ‘behaving like NGOs’ they ...

SALEM, Ore. (KATU) — A coalition of churches, labor advocates, and interfaith organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the rescinding of a ...