With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began centuries-old ...

On Palm Sunday, a week before Easter, the Catholic ... “altar of repose,” and the people go with the Eucharistic Christ in a procession. The transported is sometimes surrounded by decorations ...

The Sistine Chapel has witnessed every papal election since 1492 with only five exceptions, and it is preparing to once again ...

At a recent service in the remote southern Mexican community of Simojovel, Catholic and Mayan symbolism mingled at the altar as the deacon — his wife beside him — read the gospel in his native Tsotsil ...

In the first week of May, 1994—my sense of smell had been permanently altered. I could no longer smell anything clearly—not because my nose had failed, but because the stench of death had overtaken ...

Ukrainian and Polish experts restore a war-damaged church in Lviv, uncovering hidden relics and Soviet-era scars buried for ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

The display acts as a tribute and also a signal that the Catholic Church, and the culture and businesses that surround it, ...

Msgr. W. Ronald Jameson, the rector of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., gives his homily during ...

The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy. Tradition was treated as baggage, and doctrine was left to the ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals began the centuries-old ritual to ...

Monsignor Scott Friend of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church talked about how the church handles this process. “It’s important for us spiritually to understand that the Lord has promised to be ...