The Catholic Church has issued a warning to its clergy in Washington state: Any priest who complies with a new law requiring ...

The Catholic Church is against a new law that was pushed through by Democrats requiring priests to break the confidentiality ...

Robert Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV. He is the first American to lead the Catholic Church. Prevost was born in Chicago. He ...

In the mid-1990s, Father McGrath allegedly raped a student called Robert Krankvich, with the Church paying a $2 million (£1.5 ...

Pope Leo is seen as a centrist who shares his predecessor's progressive views on certain social issues. Here's what we know ...

Other polarising issues include same-sex marriages, climate change, the place of women in leadership in a patriarchal church, and the autonomy of local African Catholic dioceses from the central ...

But few could have predicted that appearance would be his last and that just hours later, he would leave unfinished his ...

A major test of the separation of church and state asks the Supreme Court to allow the country's first religious charter ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV is widely considered to be soft-spoken and cautious — but has not been shy in recent years about speaking out on hot-button issues, from the teaching of gender ...