Confession, the Catholic and Orthodox practice of listing one’s ... engaged in a wholesale persecution of the Catholic Church, enacting numerous anti-clerical laws and precipitating a conflict ...

At his installation Mass, the pope said, "in this our time, we still see too much discord, too many wounds caused by hatred, ...

Robert Prevost, Chicago-born missionary, was chosen as the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church ... Canossa begging Gregory to hear his confession, which he reluctantly did. The emperor, now a ...

Members of the Orthodox churches, the Assyrian Church of the East and the Polish National Catholic Church are urged to respect the discipline of their own churches. According to Roman Catholic ...

1 Peter 1:7 Another commonly misunderstood teaching of the Church concerns Purgatory ... In the Book of Maccabees found in the Catholic and Orthodox Old Testament, Judas Maccabees took a ...

In a matter of days, 135 eligible cardinals from around the world will gather in Rome for a papal conclave in order to choose the next pope for the Roman Catholic Church.

Faith leaders from the Western and Eastern Rite Churches take part in an ecumenical prayer service May 3 to mark ...

The Pope’s follow-up, Laudate Deum (2023), accused world leaders of “insufficient action,” and warned that time was running out. Francis linked ecological destruction with the suffering of the ...

A new documentary exposes how Russia is persecuting Protestants and Evangelicals in Ukraine. Director Yaroslav Lodyhin shares ...

"In 2025, the Catholic Church will celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, during which the Creed, shared by all Christians – Catholics, Orthodox, and Protestants – was ...

A Washington state lawmaker has called on the Catholic Church to change its centuries-old confessional policy so that priests ...