If the law requiring clergy to report abuse were in place years ago, the epidemic of child sexual abuse could have been ...

Democrat state Senator Noel Frame sponsored a bill requiring priests to report any alleged child abuse they hear about during ...

One Erie bishop met the new pope almost a decade ago in Rome. Another bishop with local ties is going to Pope Leo XIV's ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV met Thursday at the Vatican with the head of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine, in one of his ...

Survivors say the new pontiff must urgently improve on Pope Francis’s complicated legacy by committing to transparency and ...

But St Francis Xavier Chapel, which has a strong claim to be the oldest surviving Catholic church in sub-Saharan Africa, ...

After a series of closures by the Chicago Archdiocese, Christ Our Savior Church in South Holland has bragging rights as Pope ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

Pope Leo XIV is now the most powerful American Catholic in the world, and experts say he must aptly walk the line between U.S ...

The new pope said he would be guided by a key document that his predecessor wrote listing the church’s priorities, including ...

Rolwing's calling comes as the Catholic Church in the U.S. faces a serious priest shortage. Between 1970 and 2024, the number of priests fell by more than 40%, from 59,192 to 33,589, according to ...

When still a cardinal, the new pope led discussions on key issues facing the church during which “every voice had equal value ...