The case, a major test of the separation of church and state, was an unexpected loss for those advocating a greater role for ...

James Talbot, a former Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting boys in Maine and Massachusetts after he was exposed ...

Five Catholic churches have been put on the market. They, and others closed, can still be used for weddings and funerals until they’re sold.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...

The only certainty surrounding the election of the new pope is that he will be a man, and that's a tradition unlikely to change soon.