As a Catholic, Vance said, the criticism left him “heartbroken.” Then he hit out at the church for its role in garnering hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts to serve immigrants over ...

Our first Jesuit pope, Francis, resumed the reforms of the Second Vatican Council by challenging the church to go outside our ...

"Within the Catholic Church ... Canonical rites, which are of equal dignity, enjoy the same rights, and are under the same obligations. Although the particular churches possess their own hierarchy ...

The Catholic Church in the western Indian state of Gujarat has expressed “frustration” over the state High Court confirming the government’s power in appointing staff in Catholic high schools.

The vice president’s appeal to the ‘ordo amoris,’ a theological principle developed by Augustine and Aquinas, has sparked a ...

Cervini also reminded the crowd that the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy — right up to Pope Francis — has condemned Trump’s immigration crackdown. Francis called it a "disgrace." ...

Led the archdiocese through arguably the most contentious of the U.S. Catholic Church bankruptcy ... and snubbed his nose at church hierarchy; to others, a brilliant liturgist and reformer who ...

Their influence in policymaking plus the firm opposition of the Catholic Church hierarchy explains why the Philippines is the only country in the world without a divorce law. Filipino politicians ...

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory — where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...

The official Church hierarchy and the rebels reached an agreement ... of public disputes in the Syro-Malabar Church is against the Catholic values,” the council said.

Maple Mirzaiyun, the head of the ACU students’ union, says she has found the university a tolerant place.Credit: Flavio Brancaleone The appointment of the Australian Catholic University’s vice ...

Milwaukee became what was known as a Catholic ecclesiastical territory ... and the male-only church hierarchy, according to multiple studies. More:Mass Movement: Sixty years ago, Milwaukee ...