The position taken by Africa was also the position of so many bishops here in Europe. It’s not just an African exception,” ...

I sometimes miss my Catholic faith. The Vatican’s new decree reminds me why I’ll never go ... Steve and I were still heated with each other as we re-entered the chapel to resume our Bible class.

Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify "spiritual abuse" as a new crime in order to address cases where priests use purported mystical experiences ...

Catholic Bible experts began catching up with the rest of the scholarly world after 1943, when Pius XII issued his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu. ... At the Vatican Council, ...

The new pope is making artificial intelligence a signature issue—but Silicon Valley is trying to win him over.

The Second Vatican Council, the great revolution in the life of the modern Catholic Church, opened 60 years ago this week in Rome. So much of that 1960s-era world has passed away, but the council ...

VATICAN CITY, Nov 26 - Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify “spiritual abuse” as a new crime in order to address cases where priests use ...

Vatican City is the world’s smallest fully independent nation-state. It is ruled by the pope, who is the head of the Holy See, the central government of the Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY — Delegates from around the globe are converging on Vatican City for the opening of an unprecedented assembly seen as part of the broadest consultation on the direction of the faith ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church.

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VATICAN CITY, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The decision by the Vatican and China on Tuesday to extend an accord on the appointment of Catholic bishops in the communist country for four years indicates a new ...