HONG KONG/VATICAN CITY—A landmark deal between China's leaders and the Vatican over the appointment of bishops has been struck without Beijing taking action on long-held Church concerns over clerics in ...

The Vatican signed an agreement with Beijing on Sept. 22 that would allow the Chinese authorities to appoint ...

A high-level delegation from the Holy See will soon travel to China for the signing of an agreement ...

The attorneys general of New York and New Jersey both announced on Sept. 6 that they have started ...

Pope Francis has offered "silence and prayer" in response to allegations that he not only covered up but ...

Allegations of sexual abuse have surfaced against Roman Catholic clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln in Nebraska, the ...

SYDNEY—The Catholic church in Australia on Aug. 31 rejected laws forcing priests to report child abuse when they ...

Pope Francis on Aug. 26 said he "will not say a single word" about claims made by a ...

An ex-Vatican ambassador to the United States claims that Pope Francis was aware of allegations of sexual abuse ...

DUBLIN—The Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, withdrew on Aug. 18 from next week's World Meeting of Families ...

As the Vatican is preparing to cave in to the demands of the Chinese regime in exchange for ...

Saka was in charge of raising funds to sponsor incoming Iraqi refugees—costing roughly $6,000 a person, and about ...

Speaking of Madonna, "Spotlight," the best movie of 2015, is about how the Catholic Church, in covering up ...

Hours before Pope Francis was scheduled to arrive in Lower Manhattan, the streets surrounding the 9/11 Memorial & ...

LOWER DAFEI VILLAGE— About a dozen Catholics wept and sang hymns outside their church as a man climbed ...

Israeli police say they have arrested 16 Jewish settler youths after a Catholic church near the Sea of ...

Is she an army of one woman? All her life she struggled to get justice done, putting her ...

The tallest statue of the late Pope John Paul II is nearly finished.

The first pope from South America, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, has been announced.

The smoke emerging from the Vatican's Sistine Chapel chimney and the subsequent ringing of the bells on Wednesday ...

Whether this is the stuff of myth or legend we do not know, but like Celestine V, we ...

The Art of Zhen Shan Ren is described as neo-renaissance and has associations with the European Renaissance of ...

Pope Benedict XVI is only the second pope in the Church's history we know to have resigned of ...

The world of papal betting gives and unlikely window into the most popular candidates.

It is uncertain who will succeed Pope Benedict XVI, but it is certain that whoever it is will ...

Pope Benedict XVI's address at his final weekly audience on Wednesday acknowledged the seriousness of his papal vow—its ...

Pope Benedict XVI gave his final audience in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City State, starting at 11 a.m. ...