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

There are no winners or losers in the recent church closings by the Buffalo Diocese of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church isn’t the only denomination struggling under the weight of declining ...

The Roman Catholic Church played an important part in East Timor’s independence struggle. But one of its heroes from that ...

Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed ... has been introduced into Roman Catholic worship as well.

Sixteenth-century Europe witnessed the next pivotal moment in Christian history, now known as ... outspoken dissension against the Roman Catholic Church's practices of indulgence sales and ...

I think many would be surprised to learn not only of the profundity of the Armenian presence in the Holy Land, but of how ...

On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial" means of birth control. Condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps were defined as artificial, since they blocked ...

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Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the release of the report was a “milestone” in the country's democratic history ... abuse within the Roman Catholic Church made world ...

To write the history of Roman Catholic missions in India in the eighteenth ... where no Christian church of any kind had been established. There was, in the Roman Catholic church, no central directive ...

Pope Francis will next week visit Indonesia, making a symbolic stop at a mosque that has the "Tunnel of Friendship," an ...

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