All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, ... Francis, the 266th pontiff in the church's nearly 2000-year history, ...

Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions, anyone ...

CATHOLICS, ROMAN. Roman Catholicism in Cleveland followed a pattern common to other industrial midwestern cities. The Catholic population grew dramatically in the 19th and early 20th centuries, ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, ... Francis, the 266th pontiff in the church's nearly 2000-year history, ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, ... Francis, the 266th pontiff in the church's nearly 2000-year history, ...

Pope Leo I, the first of three popes in all of history who earned the title "the Great," embodies all of these characteristics within Roman Catholicism. Leo I became pope on September 29, A.D. 440 ...

Francis’s 69-year-old successor is the first U.S.-born pope in the 2,000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church, which has grown to 1.4 billion strong.