Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Pope John III, the capture of Edmund Campion, a ...

In May, Pope Francis started the countdown to the 2025 Holy Year, or the Jubilee, which is one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most important events. It is expected to draw tens of millions of ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ... News about Roman Catholic Church, ...

The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a group of students at an international Catholic school in Rome.. Cardinal ...

BOLOGNA, Italy — This city of red-brick towers and delicately painted porticoes once boasted the most convents of any city in Italy: Nearly 100 sanctuaries sprang up in the 16th ...

Cardinals will start their conclave next week to pick a new head of the 1.4-billion member Church. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Pope Francis, whose time as head of the Catholic Church was noted for an everyman humility and outreach efforts to people of disparate backgrounds and faiths, has died at 88, the Vatican has ...

He also oversaw the ecumenical council at Chalcedon in A.D. 451, which is where the Roman Catholic Church affirmed the dual nature of Christ as divine and human. Pope Leo I set a high bar for all ...