The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

A Church-commissioned report in 2004 said more than 4,000 US Roman Catholic priests had faced sexual abuse allegations in the last 50 years, in cases involving more than 10,000 children - mostly boys.

Several bishops and dioceses have slammed the Catholic Tribune newspapers for deceptively claiming to represent the church's ...

This battle left thousands of Orthodox Christians dead and set the stage for continued division between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Church. Sixteenth-century Europe witnessed the next pivotal ...

An example of a church built in the circular style is the St Oliver Plunkett Roman Catholic Church at Toomebridge – the altar is in the exact centre of the church and the worshippers sit round it.

She’s deliberately targeting fellow Latinos because of their voting power, constituting almost 25% of the electorate here in ...

Cardinal Dolan made a convicted felon, adjudicated sex offender and business fraud the Guest of Honor at a dinner for ...

For years, the parish ran parallel Masses on both levels to accommodate scores of Catholic families. Today, the basement is ...

But is the Buddhist religion, which prevails in China, much more foreign to our customs and our modes of thinking and believing than the Roman Catholic religion is? There are, in fact, many ...

It is good to recall that the prayers of the Roman Missal are ancient in origin and have been handed down to us over the centuries by the Catholic Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Pope Francis said people being blessed did not require "moral perfection" Pope Francis has allowed priests to bless same-sex couples, a significant advance for LGBT people in the Roman Catholic ...

ROMAN BOOKS AND THE PAPAL LIBRARY IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES ... historical and theological contexts that affected the celebration and experience of the sacramental rite that is still at the heart of ...