Despite the unresolved issues that many Catholics know are long overdue, Francis achieved far more for marginalized people ...

An article that suggested ropes, not nails, held Jesus to the cross caused a firestorm. (RNS) — At the beginning of Holy Week ...

Hong Kong’s outspoken Roman Catholic Cardinal Joseph Zen has been allowed to leave the southern Chinese city to attend Pope ...

The Vatican opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public Wednesday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, with ...

The Vatican has opened St. Peter’s Basilica to the general public to pay their final respects to Pope Francis.

Volunteers from Rochester’s Holy Apostles Church have begun a project to refurbish the church’s century-old Stations of the ...

More than 150 students eagerly anticipated the Easter Vigil — with some camping out in front of the Basilica of the Sacred ...

The final days of practice for the annual Pilsen Via Crucis are a "very pressured routine" and labor of love and tradition.

Pope Francis had expressed the desire to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, a fifth-century church in Rome.

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to elect his ...

For decades, the share of American Catholics declined in the face in secularization. But in recent years, those numbers have ...