Catholic Church

Catholic leaders in New Orleans and St. Louis are advising Catholics that the COVID-19 vaccine from Johnson & Johnson is “morally compromised” because it’s produced using cell lines developed from aborted fetuses

A defrocked American priest is on trial on charges he sexually abused young girls at his shelter for orphans and children from impoverished families.

Pope Francis led the world’s 1.3 billion Roman Catholics into the penitential season of lent on Ash Wednesday.

Wilton Gregory made history last fall when he became the first Black American to be appointed a cardinal in the Catholic Church. And though his new position places him only one rung below the pope, Cardinal Gregory has faced plenty of discrimination in his life due to his skin color.

An Associated Press investigation has found that scores of Roman Catholic dioceses in the U.S. had more than $10 billion in cash and other readily available funds when they received at least $1.5 billion from the federal government’s small business emergency relief program

The Vatican has cleared a retired U.S. bishop of multiple allegations he sexually abused minors and teenagers, rejecting lay experts’ determination that a half-dozen claims were credible

John F. Kennedy became the first Catholic president after his 1960 election, but Joe Biden’s faith looks very different.

Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly allow women to do more things during Mass, granting them access to the altar, while reaffirming they cannot be priests

Pope Francis says he’s praying for the dead in the U.S. Capitol rioting and has appealed for calm to prevail in the United States.

In a growing consensus, religious leaders at the forefront of the U.S. anti-abortion movement are telling followers that the leading vaccines available to combat COVID-19 are acceptable to take.

Pope Francis has told a private Italian broadcaster that he was “astonished” by the mob attack at the U.S. Capitol.

His motorcade thunders around Delaware, snarling traffic

Two years ago, the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia joined the long line of ambitious prosecutors investigating the Roman Catholic church’s handling of priest-abuse complaints

The Vatican’s report into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has raised uncomfortable issues the Holy See will have to confront going forward, chief among them what it will do about current and future clergy who use their power to sexually abuse adults

Men who have made allegations of abuse by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick expressed shock, outrage and anger after an internal Vatican report revealed the scale of what was known about the clergyman’s behavior and what was ignored

Pope Francis is vowing to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse and offering prayers to victims of former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick

A Catholic Church in Chicago’s Bridgeport neighborhood has seen two straight days of graffiti to its over 100-year-old facade as of Sunday.

Pope Francis has named 13 new cardinals, including Washington, D.C., Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red cap.

In new documentary “Francesco,” Pope Francis endorsed permitting civil unions for same-sex couples, the first time he has publicly addressed the issue since becoming pope in 2013.

Sunday will mark the Rev. Michael Bradley’s 20th time running the Chicago Marathon, but his 49th marathon in 25 years. With this year’s Bank of America Chicago Marathon a ‘do-it-yourself’ run, Bradley has mapped out his own course in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. Bradley plans to pass Saint Gertrude Catholic Church, where he serves as resident priest, several times on...