A former bishop who sexually abused a boy he christened as a baby has been jailed for four years and one month. Anthony Pierce, 84, was bishop of Swansea and Brecon between 1999 and 2008, though the ...

Pope Francis has increased his physical therapy with his condition remaining stable on Wednesday, marking the start of Lent by receiving ashes on his forehead and calling the parish priest in Gaza, ...

Low attendance and costly upkeep of the 94-year-old "beautiful but aging building” at 38 N. Austin Blvd. were cited as ...

The 88-year-old pope, who has chronic lung disease ... the Argentine priest who is the parish priest of the Holy Family church in Gaza. It was the third time they have spoken since the pope ...

The Venango Catholic School property in Oil City was recently sold. It's not the only former Catholic school building to find ...

This week, across the New Orleans area, descendants of Sicilian immigrants will lay out elaborate altars laden with food and ...

A retired machinist who finds comfort in reading the Psalms, Diaz said the church, still showing burns from the fire, draws a full house at the 9 a.m. Mass every Sunday. While the parish hall ...

Multiple pews and pillars were burned and stained glass windows shattered by an alleged vandal on Ash Wednesday.

rocks her 2-month-old infant, Josephine Piaskowski, after receiving ashes during Archbishop Emeritus Allen Vigneron’s final Ash Wednesday Mass, at St. Aloysius Parish in Detroit, on Wednesday ...

A convicted felon has pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving minors. The same defendant has served a prison sentence in a separate child sex-crime case when working as a Lebanon school bus driver ...

The Old Testament revelation, which the Church inherited and accepted, gives clear evidence that life in the womb was considered as sacred. Moses proclaimed, "When you hearken to the voice of the ...

This is also the coronation church where some of the most significant people in Britain's history are buried or commemorated. The Commonwealth is a worldwide family of nations united by shared values ...