Catholic Church

Following Pope Francis' death, conservatives are championing Cardinal Robert Sarah, a critic of Pope Francis, as their top choice.

Cardinal Raymond Burke is one of the figures considered as a potential successor of Pope Francis as the process to elect a new pontiff gets underway

Pope Francis died just hours after a meeting with Vice President J.D. Vance, leading to a mix of tributes and online mockery.

Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy, a Donald Trump critic, as the new Archbishop of Washington, D.C., ahead of the inauguration.

The Vatican declared a Texas convent is "extinct" after it was revealed its reverend mother had an online affair with an out-of-state priest.

Pope Francis has announced that Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old web designer who died in 2006, will be canonized as the Catholic Church's first millennial saint.

There are about 100 members of The Temple of Satan of Chile, but hundreds more have since applied for membership.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has reached a record $880 million settlement with over 1,350 victims of clergy sexual abuse.

The Vermont Catholic church can no longer afford to pay survivors as its assets have been "depleted."

A night of drugs and sexual escapades ended in death, leading to the arrest of a Belgian priest and a visit from Pope Francis.

The institution claims that how the government processes green cards for religious workers can cause "substantial disruption" to the lives of five priests

This Catholic tradition is predominantly observed in Latin America

While religion and sexuality have long been a clashing issue, a new study now reveals shifting patterns in such values and attitudes across the U.S.

A document says that people seeking this shouldn't be subjected to "an exhaustive moral analysis"

Revelations in Spain are the latest to rock the Roman Catholic Church after a series of sexual abuse scandals around the world, often involving children, over the past 20 years.

Pope Francis opens a major congress on the future of the Catholic Church Wednesday marked by tensions with conservatives on issues such as the treatment of divorcees and LGBTQ believers.

The tragedy struck the coastal town of Ciudad Madero, in Tamaulipas state, on Sunday

A purported FBI document suggests the agency may target Catholics who attend Latin Mass.

Pope Francis on Sunday has called for the peaceful resolution of the protests in Peru, calling for a dialogue between the protesters and the government.

Pope Francis revealed on Wednesday that his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, is "very ill" as he asks for prayers from his followers around the world for him to get better.

Cuba will be holding a referendum vote regarding the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption on Sunday, despite opposition from the local church and conservatives of the area.

Cardinal Marc Ouellet, a prominent Vatican figure and potential successor to the Pope, was hit with a sexual assault lawsuit on Tuesday for an incident that happened in 2010.

Don Paolo Romeo, a parish priest in Italy who believed a conspiracy theory about vaccines being made from "aborted embryos," is reported to have died on Wednesday due to contracting COVID-19.

A German law firm released a report on the findings of their independent investigation regarding the sexual abuses in the country's church, showing that the former Pope Benedict XVI knew about the cases and helped cover them up.

Investigations are continuing into the operations of a charity founded by the late Mother Teresa in 1950, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government progressively enforces the law against “forceful conversion" in Hindu-majority India, insisting people of all religions have equal rights.

The men’s attorney said the investigations concerning his clients' credibility were biased claiming the investigators were paid and controlled by the Catholic Church.

A Washington D.C. federal grand jury has charged a former priest and U.S. citizen on Thursday, accusing him of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minor victims in Timor Leste starting in 2013. The man is also currently facing related child sexual exploitation charges in the most Catholic place in the world outside the Vatican.

The Vatican has reportedly received a letter addressed to the Pope on Monday, Aug. 9, containing three bullets and a menacing message about the Papal Seat's financial operations.

A former football star player at Delbarton School in Morris County, New Jersey is seeking damages of more than $50 million following a bombshell revelation that three monks of the Catholic institution allegedly raped, sodomized, and sexually abused him more than 150 times as a teenager in the 1970s because he is Black.

The Canadian government wants Pope Francis to personally apologize for the role of the Catholic church in the country's residential school system that resulted in the death of multiple kids from 1890 to 1969.