Neighbors and community members are speaking out in opposition to the potential redevelopment of The Discalced Carmelite Nuns ...

"It's often when Francis is on the road that he's able to underscore the simplicity that he expects from church leaders," ...

The Catholic Church has been undergoing a long, slow shift, playing out on the timescale of centuries: a shift to distance ...

Age, sciatica and knee problems notwithstanding, pontiff appears to have had the time of his life during wide-ranging 11-day ...

A number of parishioners in Western New York continue to voice their disgruntlement with the Buffalo Catholic Diocese and ...

"It’s possible that if we insist (on going) down that road we will likely never arrive at the creation of a conscious machine." The Vatican Observatory, founded by the Catholic Church in 1891 to ...

Dili, East Timor (CNN) — Pope Francis arrived in the tiny Southeast Asian nation of East Timor on Monday for the penultimate stop on a marathon trip through Asia and the South Pacific for the ...

Francis was being transported by an Australian military aircraft and was bringing with him one ton of humanitarian aid, including medicine, clothes and toys for children, according to Vatican ...

What happens in their closed-door meetings? That is the premise of Vatican thriller "Conclave," starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, which screened at the Toronto film festival on Sunday.