The election of Varghese, a queer woman of Indian descent, as dean of America’s largest Episcopal church represents a number ...

Almost two months after becoming Pope Leo XIV's first choice for a new American bishop. Pham, 58, smiled throughout most of a 100-minute Mass — and cracked a few jokes.

Michael Pham, a Vietnamese American and a refugee himself, has been installed as the first Vietnamese American bishop to lead a diocese in the United States, overseeing nearly 1.4 million Catholics in ...

On my 67th birthday, traveling here alone, I prayed the rosary to the Creator of all things seen and unseen on a string of ...

Near the anniversary of his sudden and early death from a heat stroke on a hot, steamy Chicago street in July 1897, ...

Thirty years ago the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications compiled a list of what it described as some of ...

The Catholic religious order to which the Rev. Freddy Washington belongs says the allegations against him are ...

Area Catholics and others made a pilgrimage from St. Peter Church to the burial site of Father Augustus Tolton Wednesday ...

A local historian went to Rome for the first time during the conclave. But he wasn’t expecting ‘that’ kind of history.

When the Rev. Matthew Baum attended Johnstown’s Juneteenth activities recently, he was on a multi-layered mission. Baum, rector at St. John Gualbert Cathedral and St. Patrick Catholic Church, both in ...

Nearly 100 American men and women from the United States are currently being considered for sainthood. And many Catholics ...

Pope Francis arrives at Castel Gandolfo, where he will spend a period of rest, at around 5 p.m. A large group of faithful, ...