Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

Seminarian Nickolas Naticchione kneels before Bishop Joseph A. Williams during Mass on May 10 at Saint James Church, Holy ...

Permanent deacons who minister in the Diocese of Rochester and elsewhere are celebrating milestone anniversaries of ...

During a press conference with American cardinals on Friday, Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said he did not think the ...

Scholars have shown that women were sacramentally ordained as deacons in the early church and this practice was never officially banned. As I lea ...

VATICAN CITY -- Robert Prevost of the United States has been named the new pope, the new head of the Catholic church. Cardinals gathered to select their latest leader during a conclave. White smoke ...