The Quiapo Church invited the Catholic faithful to take part in a mass honoring the late Pope Francis this Saturday. In a Super Radyo report on dzBB, Mao dela Cruz said the mass is to commemorate and ...

But Africa’s share of the Catholic population is growing. The continent is now home to 20 percent of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, as the church struggles to hold on to followers in ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

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 ...

beginning preparations to set a date for the secret conclave that will elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church. An announcement regarding the date could come around midday (1000 GMT ...

Women deacons could also bolster the church’s presence in schools, hospitals and prisons, along with providing leaders for Catholic communities. Church leaders in the Amazon, where priests are ...

The pope also defied ultra-conservative Catholics when he encouraged the church to be more welcoming of Catholic divorcees and same-sex couples. He regularly promoted women in the church.

MICHELLE WAKIM, REPORTER: After 12 years as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis died on Easter Monday 2025 at the age of 88. THE VATICAN: Dearest brothers and sisters, with deep sorrow ...

Today, the top official is an MIT grad who has spent a long career in management positions for Catholic universities and prominent institutions of the church. Tighter oversight brought new ...

With the official funeral for Pope Francis having concluded, Catholic Church leaders now begin the process of addressing the Pope's unfinished business and deciding who will be the next Pope to carry ...