A series of scandals will be looming large in the eyes of church leaders and Vatican watchers alike during a highly anticipated conference on child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday. M ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged religious orders on Monday to work and pray harder for new priests and nuns to join, as he acknowledged the congregations’ futures are at risk with the numbers of men ...

‘What the dictatorship is doing is suffocating, more and more, the Catholic Church,’ says lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina. (photo: Martha Calderón/EWTN Vatican) Walter Sánchez Silva/ACI ...

The Catholic Church recognizes service to people on the margins as corporal works of mercy that are cornerstones of ...

Sixty people allege in new lawsuits filed in Missouri that they were abused as children by dozens of priests, nuns and others, and the man who now leads the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, is among ...

Whack! Whack! Whack! That was the rhythm of order in the early 1960s at the parochial school I went to as a child. Often it was “whack” with a ruler, the contrapuntal of a teacher’s index finger ...

Father Jesús Silva of the Archdiocese of Madrid explained in a video posted on his YouTube channel the reason why the schismatic Poor Clares of the Belorado Monastery are experiencing “paranoia” ...

This semester, I’m teaching a course on priests, nuns, and monks in film at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television in Los Angeles. The most common question people ask after I tell ...

Lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina has reported that the dictatorship in Nicaragua of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has deported a group of foreign ...