Catholic leaders across the U.S. and the world united in prayer Friday for Pope Francis after it was reported the 88-year-old had been hospitalized with bronchitis. The U.S. Conference of Catholic ...

Pope Francis is taking the ... to dissolve or suppress a Catholic religious community is rare and in the Sodalitium’s case follows attempts by the church hierarchy to reform the group and ...

Pope Francis Dissolves South American Catholic Group Mired in Scandal By ... Francis has made addressing sexual abuse in the Church a priority of his 12-year-old papacy, with mixed results so ...

In an important move for the Catholic Church in Texas on Monday, Pope Francis named Austin Bishop Joe Vásquez to replace 75-year-old Cardinal Daniel DiNardo as head of the Archdiocese of ...

VATICAN CITY, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Pope Francis has dissolved a Catholic religious community ... Francis has made addressing sexual abuse in the Church a priority of his 12-year-old papacy, with ...

Thanks to a Facebook post and a group of former students, St. Francis Xavier University graduate ... you can reach her at [email protected].

In early January, Catholic news outlets ... went viral and presented Francis as a fan of social media. That impression was further promoted by his 2014 sermon on the Church’s World ...

HEATH − St. Leonard Catholic Church ... assumed by the parish of St. Francis de Sales,” Fernandes wrote in his decree of extinctive union. “The parish church of St. Leonard retains its ...

The following obituaries are from the May 26, 2011 print edition of the Shakopee Valley News newspaper: Lynda K. Anderson Lynda Anderson, 54, of Shakopee, died Wednesday, May 18, 2011 at St.