The Pope chose to open the Holy Door at the Rebibbia prison in Italy as his second of five doors during the 2025 Jubilee for ...

On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholic Christians will also mark ...

Pope John Paul II made history by becoming the first leader of the Vatican to visit Greece in nearly 1300 years.

The U.S. Catholic Church has a painful history of racism. One step toward healing could be canonization of the six African ...

A Church-commissioned report in 2004 said more than 4,000 US Roman Catholic priests had faced sexual abuse allegations in the last 50 years, in cases involving more than 10,000 children - mostly boys.

Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed ... has been introduced into Roman Catholic worship as well.

From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted ... the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of the Church. Each element in the carol has a code word ...

The New Testament accounts of the historical Jesus show that he was radical in his encounters with women and treated them ...

On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial" means of birth control. Condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps were defined as artificial, since they blocked ...

Tamika Royes of Black Catholic Messenger addresses the church's "Black exodus" and how to foster the welcome that all deserve ...