Catholic Church

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, led by Archbishop José H. Gomez of the Archdioses of Los Angeles, are praising the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Recent weeks have seen an especially intense set of revelations about sexual assault and misconduct in U.S. churches.

The world’s fifth-largest pipe organ has been returned to Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove.

The world’s fifth-largest pipe organ has been returned to Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove. Vikki Vargas reports on June 10, 2022.

Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in Nigeria Sunday, killing more than 50 people, including many children.

Thieves behind a brazen robbery have made off with a religious artifact valued at over $2 million after cutting it out of a Catholic church in Brooklyn.

Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, is visited Ukraine while in Europe on a relief mission.

A New Jersey Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $87.5 million to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements involving the Catholic church in the United States.

Pope Francis has made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the “deplorable” abuses suffered in Canada’s residential schools.

Green beer, packed bars, corned beef and cabbage, wear green or you’ll be pinched; these are things most commonly remembered when it comes to the Irish tradition of St. Patrick’s Day. Ironically, these are American-born traditions.

Catholic officials say words matter. So when they learned that a priest in Phoenix had been using the wrong baptismal formula for years, they said those baptisms were invalid.

Thousands of baptisms performed by a priest in Phoenix, the Rev. Andres Arango, are invalid, because he used the wrong wording.

A long-awaited report on sexual abuse in Germany’s Munich diocese has faulted retired Pope Benedict XVI’s handling of cases when he was archbishop in the 1970s and 1980s

The children of a deceased man who said he was molested as a child by a priest have sued the Roman Catholic church under a new California law that allows survivors to bring lawsuits for the suffering a loved one endured. The family of Jim Bartko filed the lawsuit last week in Alameda County Superior Court against the Diocese of...

Pope Francis is seeking to encourage married couples

U.S. Catholic bishops have overwhelmingly approved a document on Communion that stops short of calling for withholding the sacrament from politicians who support abortion rights, such as President Joe Biden

Pope Francis is decrying society which “hurries past” the poor, judges them and leaves them to their fate.

Megan Rice, a nun and Catholic peace activist who spent two years in federal prison while in her 80s after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons, has died.

Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France.