It is not clear yet how much the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo will ask each of its parishes and other affiliated groups to pay toward a $150 million clergy sex abuse settlement.

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report information about child abuse to law enforcement — even if given in ...

A new initiative, “Called By Name,” is the Archdiocese of New York’s latest attempt to spark interest in the priesthood.

Gianni Cipriano for The New York ... Catholic values in the world. Then came the stunning arrival on Thursday of a new pope: an American, Chicago-born — and a prelate whose priorities for the ...

SINGAPORE: The Catholic Church in Singapore on Friday (May 9) celebrated the election of Pope Leo XIV, who succeeds Pope Francis. Robert Francis Prevost is the first pope from the US. He was ...

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Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the next head of the Catholic Church. He is the first pope from the US and took the papal name Leo XIV. The iconic Empire State Building in New York ...

With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, many are wondering in what direction a new pope will take the Catholic Church. The role of women in the Church is a big issue ...

NIGEL AND SYDNEY, WHAT DOES THIS ALL MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PERHAPS POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS IN THE U.S.? I SPOKE TO HISTORIAN AT FURMAN UNIVERSITY AS HE BREAKS IT ALL DOWN.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the ...