But St Francis Xavier Chapel, which has a strong claim to be the oldest surviving Catholic church in sub-Saharan Africa, ...

Varia Alston, a 21-year-old junior at McDaniel College, became the first young adult to receive the Unsung Black Catholic Woman Award from Baltimore’s Historic St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. The ...

Pope Francis, who died at 88 last month, was the first pontiff to be publicly inclusive of the LGBTQ Catholic community.

It’s a distressing time for everyone right now, but one of the tried and true ways people cope with the current unruly state ...

"I don’t know of anyone who isn’t quite shocked right now," said Michael Sanem, a faithful Catholic and director of mission and ministry for St. Francis Xavier Parish in Kansas City.

She smelled like lemons. I was raised at Baltimore’s St. Francis Xavier Church, the oldest Black Catholic church in Maryland — a gray, gothic structure heavy with history, joy and contradiction.

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Francis also was the first Jesuit pope of the Catholic Church. The Society of Jesus ... the reverse is not true. According to Xavier University, Jesuit ...

The newly elected pope first visited Kochi in 2004, when he was the superior general of the Order of Saint Augustine (OSA).