In Italy, bells tolled in church towers and flags were lowered to half-staff on government buildings in Rome. View on ...

The death of a pope, and the election of a new pontiff, is adorned with high ritual and elaborate ceremony. For more about how the Catholic Church will celebrate and mourn Pope Francis, and what comes ...

In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent ritual: He would call the lone Catholic church in the Gaza ...

The fundamental issue Serbian societies (in Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina / Republika Srpska) face with ...

The murder of a Kansas Catholic priest at his church’s rectory was carried out "intentionally and with premeditation," a prosecutor said. Gary Hermesch, 66, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, remains in ...

At least four Catholic churches were located within a mile of Santa Maria Addolorata. Three of those still stand, and the fourth, St. Boniface, has been re-purposed as condominiums, with new ...

American Catholics ought to be alarmed but, in a way, inspired by some recent statistics on the Catholic faith in the U.S. The Pew Research Center published its Religious Landscape Study recently ...

When the community met for morning prayers in honour of Eid al-Fitr, they gathered in a new mosque located in the former Mary Queen of Peace Catholic Church on Torbay Road in St. John's.

New Vatican ... Office of Church Statistics, a department of the Secretariat of State. The data reported in the Pontifical Yearbook offers information regarding the life of the Catholic Church ...

That same day, neighbors reported seeing a woman spit on the church’s sign. “I am experiencing a new level of anger amongst people, in ways I haven’t experienced,” Kimball said.

In several photos released by Salvadoran media, a female Anglican bishop can be seen behind the altar along with the bishop of the Salvadoran Old Catholic Church and anti-mining activist Neftalí ...

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