VATICAN CITY — The Roman Catholic Church bid farewell to the first New ... an elaborate, multilingual ceremony modestly slimmed down at the behest of Pope Francis, who died the morning after ...

(Photo by Jess Mancini) PARKERSBURG — St. Margaret-Mary Catholic Church in Parkersburg acquired two pieces of art over the past few years. One is the painting “Madonna of the Rosary with St ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

I knew he was the head of the Catholic Church, a figure of authority whose portrait hung in parish halls and Catholic schools. But he remained an unreachable, almost mythical figure. When Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A procession to move the body of Pope Francis to St. Peter’s Basilica for three days of public mourning ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

His reforms made the body more representative of the global Catholic community, while the cardinals he selected, by and large, share his vision of the Church. All of this makes it more likely that ...

Mr Boyle made the comments at the end of a motion debating the role of the Catholic Church in schools. Delegates from the Irish National Teachers' Organisation turned out in force early this ...

Elected the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis took on the mantle at a time when the Catholic Church was grappling with several issues. This included the child sex abuse scandal ...

The abuse crisis in the Catholic Church exposed deep cultural and systemic failings. Francis’ renewal efforts, including his convening of worldwide synod assemblies, sought to build more ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232. "Christians are baptized 'in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit' [Mt 28:19.] Before receiving the ...