Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, has held his title for 12 years. What to know about the Jesuit.

Armed men stabbed a Catholic priest to death while he was alone inside a church last week in the northwest Sagaing region of ...

While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

While the Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, they do not ...

Pope Francis was on the minds of everyone who came to mass at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in North Hollywood Sunday ...

In the 1960s, most Catholic school teachers were members of religious orders. Now, many schools have one or two, or no nuns ...

Rev. Pete Nunnally’s outdoor worship blends faith with nature along Brandywine Creek, part of the growing wild church ...

Cardinals, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), are bishops and Vatican officials from all ...

Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.

Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first ...