Catholic opposition to the death penalty is relatively new in the church’s history, but has helped shape public debate.

Robert Beaton, 33, pleaded no contest to charges related to attacking a priest and damaging St. Christopher Catholic Church ...

To have such a Mass in the mother church of England was ‘very impressive, very moving. We must pray a lot for the conversion ...

I'm like, not again!' said one parishioner of the historic St. Teresa of Avila Church, who moved there after her previous ...

Ahead of Independence Day, the National Catholic Bioethics Center’s Edward Furton presented a lecture in the nation’s capital ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "Purgatory:" 1031. "The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment ...

A plan to have Father Connor Hetzel provide leadership assistance to four parishes in County has become a permanent lead assignment. Hetzel felt an early feeling that he might want to be a priest. He ...

The Rev. James Kelly baptized and married thousands of people, ministered to the ill at hospitals, and traveled the world. He ...

A Catholic priest has been arrested for allegedly forcibly touching a woman inside a church kitchen in a Long Island diocese ...

Carpenter is hardly the first pop star to cause controversy among the Catholic Church or religious groups. Madonna ’s music video for her 1989 hit “Like a Prayer” was famously condemned by ...

Gloria Theresa Jones needed to join in the rosary with her friends' family before they could watch television in the 1950s ...