The Vatican announced this week that its College of Cardinals will convene on May 7 for the conclave process at the famed Sistine Chapel – where they'll elect Pope Francis' successor as leader of the ...

THE African Catholics who welcomed Pope Paul to their continent last week are among the newest and the oldest Christians in the world. In Egypt, Alexandria had a colony of Christians at the time of ...

Five years ago, in Langenberg, West Germany, a teen-age butcher’s apprentice confessed to a Roman Catholic priest that he had murdered an eight-year-old boy. During the confession, and in subsequent ...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany faces hundreds of cases of sexual abuse in connection with members of its clergy.

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, religious observers say, with the late pontiff’s mission of hope and mercy inspiring fervor among the continent’s young people in visits to nations ...

Village trustees voted Tuesday to approve an application by St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church to hold a second Fall Family ...

The College of Cardinals will convene on May 7th at the Sistine Chapel to elect Pope Francis' successor. Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity, differing from other branches primarily in ...