GENEVA — A sweeping, year-long study of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and others in Switzerland published Tuesday has turned up more than 1,000 cases since the mid-20th century, as the Swiss ...

Although the Church criticized the slave trade in Africa, Catholic leaders were slow to support the abolition of slavery in the United States—“so opposed were they to the individualist (at ...

In the early years of the Catholic Church, popes kept their birth names. The first exception came in the 6th century when Mercurius chose to be called John II, casting off his original name, which ...

The Catholic Church has approved the canonization of its first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, a young Italian teenager who died in 2006. The decision is expected to energize young Catholics like ...

A sweeping study of sex abuse by priests and others within the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland has turned up more than 1,000 cases since the mid-20th century.

GENEVA (AP) — A sweeping, yearlong study of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and others in Switzerland published Tuesday has turned up more than 1,000 cases since the mid-20th century, as the Swiss ...