Philippines may have nine vacant dioceses as bishops retire and transfer, creating urgent need for pastoral leadership in ...

The Roman Catholic Church traces its origin to the apostles and specifically to Peter. They are by far the largest ...

In March of this year alone, three local ordinaries reached the optional canonical retirement age of 75 for bishops.

Washington state’s bishops filed a lawsuit May 29 over a new law requiring clergy to report child abuse or neglect without ...

1213 Holy Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life, the gateway to life in the Spirit (vitae spiritualis ianua) , 4 and the door which gives access to the other sacraments. Through Baptism ...

First reported by The Pillar, the lawsuit is in response to Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson's approval of Senate Bill 5375 ...

Religious scholars and political pundits are asking if (and how far) the new Pope Leo XIV will advance the Church, and ...

In Herman Hesse’s novel "The Glass Bead Game," published in 1943, a future Europe is controlled by only two powers, the players of that mysterious game that uses math and musicology to utilize ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, was elected head of the Roman Catholic Church. But what sets him apart is not that ...

At a May moleben in New Jersey, the faithful honored the Blessed Mother and heard a moving testimony from Archbishop Borys ...

Many shrines are located at places where specific martyrs were imprisoned, tried, tortured, or killed, with each site ...