However, the percentage of people affiliated with a religious congregation is decreasing, and those who do attend are increasingly politically conservative. Rank and file Catholics are very divided on ...

The young Chinese mother was there with her husband Josemi and son, Emmanuel, to share the testimony of her conversion from atheism to Catholicism before thousands of young people gathered July 4 for ...

Theologians have refuted misconceptions about the Nicene Creed and the council in 325 that created it, as many churches ...

A drumbeat of anti-immigrant episodes has taken place over the past five weeks in Northern Ireland. But the images have also ...

COMMENTARY: The ancient witness of the Eastern Catholic Churches may hold the key to healing divisions and reviving true ...

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Babies discarded in a septic tank by Catholic priests and nuns 80 years ago will finally receive a dignified burial. Hundreds of children are believed to be buried in a mass grave.

Robert Prevost became the first pope from the U.S. in the history of the Catholic Church when he was elected. The ...

Catholic nuns ran an institution there between 1925 and 1961, housing women who had become pregnant outside of marriage and ...

The Saint Kateri Tekakwitha National Shrine and Historic Site in New York honors the life of St. Kateri and the history of ...

The Catholic church requires clearances to do anything short of attending Mass. What would Jesus think? My church welcomes people in, and if they want to do anything, a packet is given to them of ...