The Roman Catholic Church is on the brink of collapse, says James Carroll, a former priest, and he thinks that’s great news. Mr. Carroll, a research associate at Harvard University’s Divinity School, ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year ...

‘I felt I had a vocation,’ says the noted British author about his life’s work. ‘It was what God wanted me to do.’ Piers Paul Read is pictured with book covers of ‘Alive: The Story of the Andes ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic ...

For more than a century, the Catholic Church financed its expansion and its institutions with profits made from the purchase and sale of people they enslaved. This chapter of Church history has only ...

(RNS) — The church depends on donations from nations whose better off have been educated on the baptismal equality of all persons. (RNS) — Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who forget history ...

The present church was built in 1905 but the congregation dates back to 1866 on the same property south of FedExForum ...

A historic 100-year-old Catholic church in Rock Springs has been closed and is to be put up for sale to help fund a new ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a ...