National Shrine and Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Sheshan, also known as Basilica of Mary, Help of Christians, in Shanghai, China. | lobia, Wikimedia. As the Catholic Church continues through a ...

A young girl celebrates Pope Francis as he appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13, 2013, at the Vatican.

The National Catholic Reporter has noted that cardinals in Rome are increasingly discussing synodality, Pope Francis' vision of a more welcoming and open church. Among the topics addressed in 27 ...

The Register spoke with several who traveled from the U.S. to the Eternal City for Easter, the Jubilee of ... at the funeral of the leader of the Catholic Church and successor to St. Peter?

a mission was maintained for the benefit of early French settlers as well as Potawatomie Native American converts to the Catholic faith, the release states. The present church building dates to ...

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 ...

Except for the resurrection on Easter, Holy Thursday is possibly one of the most important, complex, and profound days of celebration in the Catholic Church. Holy Thursday celebrates the ...

It is the rootedness in Christ that moves the church out of itself and into the world. The great French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain once said that we are all born with a liberal heart or ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Catholic Church in Oklahoma wants taxpayers to fund an online charter school that “is faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ.” The Supreme Court could well approve.

Lloyd Levenson, the church’s attorney, answered that “you’d have to be Rip Van Winkle” not to know what the grand jury would say. “The goal here is obviously to condemn the Catholic ...