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 ...

Dorsey, 73. “The loss [of a parish] can paralyze you but, if the church is going to grow, it has to be pruned. What ...

The Greater Cincinnati area has such a large Catholic ... church back to a more traditional, more conservative direction. “He did surprising things,” said Susan Shonk, a parishioner at St ...

Pope Francis has been described as merciful and humble by members of the Catholic Church in Canberra following ... the pope's final public appearance at St Peter's Square to bless those gathered ...

Gertrude was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Platteville ... Nathan Fiedler and 27 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Bill, son, Thomas ...

How next Pope will be chosen and why Palmer-Buckle says Cardinal Turkson election would be great honour for Ghana ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an Argentinian son of Italian immigrants who became Pope Francis, turned out to be a consistently surprising pontiff who forced his Roman Catholic Church to look beyond its ...

Here are the key things to know about the death of the Argentine pontiff, history’s first from Latin America, who presided over the Catholic Church ... before the great bells of St. Peter ...

Cellini is the pastor at St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church in Bluffton but serves as the dean of the Beaufort Deanery, which is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston. Cellini was at ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria ...

A press release from the vice president's office said Vance and Cardinal Parolin, who is the Catholic Church's most senior ... to Catholicism in 2019 at St. Gertrude Priory, which is attached ...