Tessa Munt, MP for Wells and the Mendip Hills, has joined the campaign to commemorate the brave pilots and navigators of the ...

and Messiaen — that formed the bedrock of his longstanding reputation Born in Morebath, Devon, on 10 December 1941, Nicolas Kynaston was the youngest of seven children of Roger Kynaston, a painter and ...

Rome, Italy – When Pope Francis was elected in 2013, he faced loud calls to expand the role of women within the Roman Catholic Church. To some extent, he delivered. Francis opened key meetings ...

Most U.S. Catholics say they rely on the pope and the Church's teachings for difficult moral questions, this is particularly the case for those who call themselves strong Catholics. For most U.S ...

When still a cardinal, the new pope led discussions on key issues facing the church during which “every voice had equal value,” whether an archbishop or an unordained believer. By Motoko Rich ...

Francis selected cardinals who he felt shared his sense of the church — that it should be less hierarchical and more pastoral — but they do not necessarily embrace his more inclusive view of ...

Wallen was arrested in April 2024 after tossing a chair from the roof of Church's Nasvhille bar Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy. Tradition was treated as baggage, and doctrine was left to the ...

A new nonprobability based survey finds dramatic growth in church attendance among young adults in the United Kingdom and should challenge the idea that religion is dying in Britain, its author says.

As the world welcomes Pope Leo XIV, many are finding hope in the promise of expanding the legacy of Pope Francis — a shepherd who reshaped the Catholic Church by drawing it closer to the poor ...

As cardinals from Myanmar to Malta ready themselves for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis sought to drag ...

Attorneys for the man and the church recently indicated they're nearing a settlement in his case and more than 100 similar sexual abuse cases in California. (Alejandro Tamayo / The San Diego Union ...