The Mass, along with other steps, show Pope Leo XIV and the Roman Catholic Church building on the environmental commitment of ...

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 ...

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 ...

MILAN (AP) — Tuscany approved a bill regulating medically assisted suicide Tuesday, becoming Italy’s first region to approve a right-to-die law in the Roman Catholic country after the ...

The Catholic News Agency earlier this year reported a slight increase in the number of Catholics globally, with the population growing to 1.406 billion in 2023 from 1.39 billion in 2022.

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Tuscany becomes the first region to approve assisted suicide in Roman Catholic Italy . Feb. 11, 2025 at 1:00 pm Updated Feb. 11, 2025 at 1:59 pm . By . The Associated Press.