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

Pope Leo XIV called Sunday for “merciful compassion” for the world’s poor, victims of tyranny and wars, as he celebrated Mass ...

British tourists have been warned about travelling to Italy in the next 12 months over the Roman Catholic Holy Year. The Foreign Office issued the safety and security advice, which stretches to ...

News about Roman Catholic Church, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Pope Francis, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 88 Francis captured the imaginations of believers and non-believers alike.

Excavators working at an ancient Catholic church in Italy recently found an even older religious symbol: the head of an ancient deity. The Appian Way Regional Park announced the find on Facebook ...

As cardinal, Pope Leo XIV balanced the sacramental with the personal while confirming teenagers The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had ...

These days, the nuns of Bologna are part of an uncomfortable countdown in Italy and the rest of the Roman Catholic world. Every week, it seems, there are fewer nuns, fewer convents with full ...

The three-day celebration of the centenary, dubbed “Frassati Days,” drew pilgrims from the United States, Poland, and ...

Why did the Pope pick Leo? Here’s why the name is so important in the Catholic Church Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman ...

Il Lavoro retorted: “Catholic parish priests pray against the Fascist regime! They prevent from entering their churches little boys in the uniforms of the balilla” (Fascist Boy Scouts).

Pope Francis, the charismatic and conciliatory Argentinian who moved to liberalize the Roman Catholic Church, dramatically reorienting the papacy’s posture toward homosexuality and modestly ...