Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

Gold crosses, priceless art, sprawling cathedrals—there’s no denying the Catholic Church is rich. It built its massive wealth ...

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, often called “the conscience of the nation,” has been trying to tone down the uproar after ...

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Dame Sarah Mullally has officially taken up the post as Archbishop of Canterbury in a service in St Paul's Cathedral, making ...

A new bishop has taken charge of a Catholic diocese in eastern China, replacing the elderly bishop who reached the canonical ...

Nigeria’s bishops said they will investigate a controversy surrounding a new cathedral in Nnewi after a prominent lay ...

The Holy Father appealed to communities of nations 'to be ever vigilant, so that the horror of genocide may never again ...

The horrific genocide that marked last century “brought death to millions of Jews and to many other people,” said the pontiff ...

Joe Wilson from Carfin could become Scotland's first millennial saint. Vatican now reviewing case after bishops approved canonisation process in November.

Benedict noted in one Angelus address: “The Beatitudes are the transposition of the Cross and Resurrection into discipleship.

"The question before us is not whether protest belongs in church, but whether the church still belongs to the Gospel it ...