Catholic Charities West Virginia will be relocating its Weirton office to the Community Bread Basket. This move to the 3545 Pennsylvania Ave. office, strengthens CCWVa’s ability to serve individuals ...

The Most Rev. Mark Brennan, Bishop of the Wheeling-Charleston Diocese, believes newly-elected Pope Leo XIV will continue the ...

Catholics in Charleston joined the world as they watched the first American pope was elected in the Vatican City on Thursday. Randall Hoffman who is a parishion ...

Reaction poured out from throughout the area Thursday after the election of Pope Leo XIV - the first American pope.Cardinal Robert Prevost, originally from Chic ...

At the age of 45, Bychock became the Catholic Church's youngest cardinal on 7 December 2024, when he was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Francis at a consistory ceremony in the Vatican.

Pope Francis, who has died aged 88 after 12 years at the head of the Catholic Church, was probably the most famous Argentinian who ever lived. Born in 1936 as Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis ...

What direction should the Catholic Church take under the next pope? The late pontiff’s emphasis on social and economic justice, advocacy for migrants and openness to debate on homosexuality and ...

People visit the Baoding Catholic church in Baoding, China's northern Hebei province on April 22, 2025. Adek Berry—AFP/ Getty Images Reporter When Pope Francis died on Monday, governments around ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis had once vowed to eradicate the “evil” of sexual abuse from the Roman Catholic Church. He called bishops to Rome for listening sessions. He drew up new guidelines ...

This is not merely a biographical detail. His papacy was transformative in shaping a Catholic Church that was not focused solely on Europe. He shifted its attention from the old continent to the ...

On several occasions, Francis directly addressed the painful subject of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. In 2018, he told abusers to turn themselves in and to 'prepare for divine justice'.

The bureaucrats bristled at the Pope’s recent draconian moves: Since 2021, he'd slashed salaries for the Church’s 250-odd cardinals three times. In 2023, he nixed the rich housing subsidies ...