Learn more about the historic hospital in Milan, where thousands of buried bodies provide an unprecedented look into the ...

The extraordinary longevity of the Catholic Church could make it seem like a body that floats above the everyday world of ...

The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous ...

In Detroit, traditionalist Catholics were bracing for a crackdown. The promise of change in Rome offers them a sliver of hope ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

Tucson police are investigating allegations that a longtime member of the Golden Dawn Tabernacle molested a boy in 2012 and the church’s pastor covered it up. He admitted to molesting a boy.

A NEARLY 300-year-old mummy has been found “unusually well-preserved” after undergoing a bizarre embalming method. With its ...

The Gaza Government Media Office updated its death toll to more than 61,700, saying thousands of people missing under the ...

I invited students in one class to critique my column on tariffs. The assignment was optional, but one instruction was not: ...

Pope Francis, who sought to refocus the Catholic Church on promoting social and economic justice rather than traditional moral teachings but presided over growing divisions in the church ...

The decision by Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to reject the lavish red slippers of his office was widely ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in others such as abortion, and made inroads with Muslims and ...