The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued a powerful new directive urging nations to eliminate coercive psychiatric ...

Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions. View on ...

Here’s a religion and politics story from the 2024 election that I hadn’t really thought about until recently: J.D. Vance, Trump’s pick for vice president, converted to Catholicism in 2019.

A proposed online charter school for rural Oklahoma could open the door for public schools run by religious organizations ...

With Pope Francis’ funeral in the rearview mirror, the focus at the Vatican shifts to the forthcoming papal conclave and the process of electing the next pontiff.  The Catholic Church is bigger than ...

Wyoming Catholics are reacting to the death of Pope Francis with sorrow and hope. Even a self-described Casper “cafeteria ...

The process of picking a new pope is filled with ancient rituals like a secret ballot and locked doors. See a visual guide to conclave.

As a Black man born and raised in the deep South, the pope was never at the center of my religious beliefs. I was brought up as mostly Baptist, but any Black church that met for somewhere between 4 ...

St. Peter’s Square erupted in applause for Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Inside the Basilica, he and Donald Trump huddled ...

The funeral of Pope Francis, held on April 26, 2025, was a profoundly significant event, attracting over 400,000 attendees, including delegations and leaders from around the world, leading many to ...

Catholic humanitarian aid organization, Catholic Relief Services, was told it must pay $60,000 to a former gay worker whose ...

As he prepares to enter the seclusion of a conclave to elect a new pope, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of ...