Catholic Church

With a solemn ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis has expanded the ranks of churchmen now eligible to vote for his successor in case he dies or resigns.

Speaking to Barron, the “Honey Boy” actor revealed that to step into the shoes of the biopic’s titular character, the late-Christian mystic Padre Pio, he began to take part in the Catholic Church. To start, he moved into a monastery of Franciscan Capuchin friars.

The government’s criticisms echo those of survivors and concern Francis’ omission of any reference to the sexual abuse suffered by Indigenous children in the schools, as well as his refusal to name the Catholic Church as an institution bearing any responsibility.

Pope Francis delivered an apology Monday for the “catastrophic” abuses committed against Canada’s Indigenous communities, many of whom were forced into Catholic residential schools where physical and sexual abuse was prevalent.

Pope Francis traveled to Canada on Sunday for a six-day visit to the country where he plans to apologize to Indigenous peoples.

Pope Francis has landed in Canada, beginning a fraught visit to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools.

Pope Francis plans to apologize to Indigenous groups on Canadian soil for harms inflicted at church-run residential schools. When he does, Francis will add to the Catholic Church’s growing ledger of atonement for past transgressions.

The pontiff told Reuters that the idea “never entered my mind” to announce a planned retirement at the end of the summer, though he repeated he might step down some day.

The Diocese of Worcester has stripped a school in the Massachusetts city of its affiliation with the Catholic Church because of the flags it has flown in support of Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ rights. A decree issued Thursday by Bishop Robert McManus forbids the Nativity School of Worcester from identifying itself as a Catholic school from now on. Bishop…

Worcester’s bishop has stripped a school of its affiliation with the Catholic Church because it has flown flags representing Pride and Black Lives Matter.

Recent weeks have seen an especially intense set of revelations about sexual assault and misconduct in U.S. churches.

Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in Nigeria Sunday, killing more than 50 people, including many children.

Thieves behind a brazen robbery have made off with a religious artifact valued at over $2 million after cutting it out of a Catholic church in Brooklyn.

Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, is visited Ukraine while in Europe on a relief mission.

A New Jersey Catholic diocese has agreed to pay $87.5 million to settle claims involving clergy sex abuse with some 300 alleged victims in one of the largest cash settlements involving the Catholic church in the United States.

A Catholic middle school in Worcester, Massachusetts, is standing by its advocacy after church leaders in the region criticized it for flying flags representing LGBTQ+ rights and the Black Lives Matter movement. The Nativity School of Worcester is a tuition-free all-boys school in the Jesuit network and serves mostly children of color. School officials said they fly the flags to…

A Catholic school in Worcester is defending its flags representing LGBTQ+ rights and Black Lives Matter after the city’s bishop called for their removal.

Pope Francis has made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the “deplorable” abuses suffered in Canada’s residential schools.

Cardinal Sean O’Malley of the Boston Archdiocese led a prayer service urging for peace between Russia and Ukraine.

The Diocese of Worcester says it is investigating a worker at its church-run food pantry after three allegations were made against him in the last week. The worker is a longtime employee at St. John’s Church and has been honored for his charity work by the city and several other organizations. Because he has not been charged criminally, NBC10...