After a series of closures by the Chicago Archdiocese, Christ Our Savior Church in South Holland has bragging rights as Pope ...

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 ...

Brother Leo was the 13th century friar who was a great companion to St. Francis of Assisi, the late pope's namesake."Together, we must try to find out how to be a missionary church, a church that ...

DEAR ANNIE: Lately, I’ve had a couple of people I barely know ask me if I go to church. I find the question surprisingly personal and uncomfortable to answer. The truth is, I don’t attend ...

For instance, St. Basil in a letter to Bishop Amphilochius (374) clearly pronounces the Church’s teaching: "A woman who has deliberately destroyed a fetus must pay the penalty for murder" and ...

In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica ... one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. And in January he elevated him into ...

The Catholic church has a new leader ... “habemus papam” (“We have a pope” in Latin) from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica. The 69-year-old new Bishop of Rome’s first words to ...