Born enslaved, rejected by U.S. seminaries and ordained in Rome, Augustus Tolton became the first publicly recognized Black ...

Cardinal Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of the Catholic archdiocese of Johannesburg, has offered a reflection on on the Catholic Church in South Africa.

Early into his pontificate, Francis put his finger on the scales in Peru by naming an outsider to take over the Chiclayo Diocese, a conservative stronghold. That new bishop was Robert Prevost, the ...

One of the country’s highest-ranking Catholic leaders, and a top ally of Pope Leo, is sharply criticizing the Trump ...

John L Allen Jr, editor-in-chief of Crux whose decades-long career in journalism defined him as one of the authoritative ...

The profile of Pope Leo XIV is among the most viewed pages on the digital encyclopedia Wikipedia, and his names — both the one he took upon beginning his pontificate on May 8 and his given name, ...

A Massachusetts church is causing controversy with what’s missing from its annual Nativity scene and an accompanying statement. St. Susanna, a Catholic church in the Boston suburb of Dedham, displayed ...

In mid-October, Catholic clergy arrived at the doors of the makeshift ICE detention center in Broadview, Illinois, in hopes of bringing the Eucharist, the central sacrament of the faith, to those ...

People are returning in droves to the Catholic Church in Connecticut, reversing a decades-long decline as particularly younger people search for deeper meaning and peace in a divisive world, priests ...