The vestments, created by the House of Hansen in former Cardinal Robert Prevost's hometown, were made of an ecclesiastical ...

Police originally responded to a call for an overdose ─ and then community members came forward to alert them to additional ...

Shortly after the announcement, Johana Tablada, deputy director of the U.S. department in the Cuban Foreign Ministry, lashed ...

Father Thomas Hennen, vicar general of the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, has been appointed Bishop of Baker, Oregon.

"Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue." Pope Leo XIV holds first 'green ...

Bishop-designate Hennen has served in several parishes in the Diocese of Davenport before his July 10 appointment.

Pope Leo XIV is starting a six-week vacation this weekend at the papal summer retreat south of Rome. It's his first break ...

For the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly established by Pope Francis and celebrated this year on July 27, Pope Leo ...

The Vatican has released a new liturgy for the Mass reflecting concern for the environment, offering prayers, readings and hymns that highlight the church's responsibility to protect the Earth.

Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

The first American canonized by the Roman Catholic Church — just like the first American chosen as pope — once walked among the people of Chicago.

The specter of schism has hovered in recent years over the Metropolitan Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabar ...