When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

The Catholic Church’s ban on wigs in the 18th century was as revealing of attitudes towards disability as vanity and sanctity ...

Pope Francis will be visiting Belgium on a trip starting Thursday, facing a flock ravaged by countless scandals of priest ...

It's the first visit by a Pope to the nation since it gained independence in 2002. As the race for the White House heats up, ...

Small Things Like These is based on the acclaimed novella by Claire Keegan and will revolve around the dark history of ...

The head of the Vatican’s doctrine office will hold a press conference Thursday about the “spiritual experience” at the ...

The Oscar winner plays a hard-working coal merchant and father haunted by Church-sanctioned cruelty in Ireland in the ...

Diarmaid MacCulloch’s ambitious book looks at celibacy, marriage, homosexuality and trans issues from the perspective that ...

Timor Leste, or East Timor, is a Southeast Asian nation that occupies half of the island of Timor and is almost the size of ...

The Archdiocese of Newark says the decision to close St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Bayonne was made in July, due to ...

St. John’s Roman Catholic Church on Newton Avenue will remain open as a secondary ... “This is the end of an era,” said Dolce ...

Julie Smith/News Tribune Five people who say Mid-Missouri Catholic priests sexually abused them as far back as the 1970's ...