For the first time since the end of the Civil War in 1939, Spain’s Roman Catholic hierarchy has issued a joint pastoral letter to the faithful. The 38-page letter, redefining the relations between ...

The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic history with absolutely no certainty about who or what comes next. Rather than reflexively corralling ...

BRUSSELS — A prominent Belgian bishop on Wednesday criticized the Vatican for failing to defrock a former bishop who admitted sexually abusing children, saying it had led to massive frustration with ...

In 1912, former Georgia congressman and onetime vice presidential candidate Tom Watson published The Roman Catholic Hierarchy, a reprise of his voluminous anti-Catholic polemics and speeches. To him, ...

Pope Benedict XVI is said to have approved a document saying that homosexual men should not be ordained as Roman Catholic priests, a conservative Catholic Web site has reported. The long-anticipated ...

Pope Francis (C) speaks with two cardinals at the end of a Marian vigil mass in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican, October 9, 2016. (Photo: Reuters) Vatican City: Pope Francis said on Sunday he ...

The battle between the Roman Catholic hierarchy and dissident priests over Pope Paul’s anti-contraception encyclical continues. Last week the major scene of conflict was Washington, D.C., where ...