A series of scandals will be looming large in the eyes of church leaders and Vatican watchers alike during a highly anticipated conference on child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday. The ...

A Mexico City exhibition of paintings portraying sexualized and queer Christian priests and nuns has elicited fervent complaints from religious groups and right-wing figures who have held protests at ...

As Mayor Brandon Johnson was defending Chicago’s sanctuary city status at a congressional hearing focused on immigration policies, a group of priests, nuns and lay leaders were gathering in protest ...

Nuns, priests and other religious workers won't have to remain outside the United States under revised immigration rules, the ...

Catholics across the region are celebrating the historic announcement that the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the church was born and raised in the Chicago area. In his first words ...

Every year a Spanish village honors a saint by dropping a goat off the church tower. Casual observers might find this particularly odd, but cradle Catholics know how to take it in stride. Catholicism ...

Catholic priests and nuns joined hundreds of activists demanding to stop a geothermal project on the predominantly Catholic Flores island in Indonesia, saying the project violates villagers' land ...

Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun were kidnapped in northern Cameroon overnight, a bishop and a government source said on Saturday, Reuters reported. It was not clear who seized them, though ...

Catholic priests and nuns joined hundreds of activists demanding to stop a geothermal project on the predominantly Catholic Flores island in Indonesia, saying the project violates villagers' land ...