Discover how the rural parish of St. Mary Church in Altus welcomes seven growing refugee families from Myanmar, breathing new ...

Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

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

Leo urged an end to the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. "I carry in my heart the suffering of the beloved ...

NEW YORK (AP) — News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across ...

"It's been an unbelievable week, obviously, for all of us," said Mark Duffey, who was ordained as a deacon at St. Thomas of ...

Seminarian Nickolas Naticchione kneels before Bishop Joseph A. Williams during Mass on May 10 at Saint James Church, Holy ...

Permanent deacons who minister in the Diocese of Rochester and elsewhere are celebrating milestone anniversaries of ...

Transitional Deacon Alex Hall said he first felt the call to be a priest when he was in elementary school. Bishop Michael Izen was then Father Izen, the pastor of Deacon Hall’s parish, St. Timothy in ...

Scholars have shown that women were sacramentally ordained as deacons in the early church and this practice was never officially banned. As I lea ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than ...

For the first time in history, the College of Cardinals has chosen an American pope, Robert Francis Prevost, who chose the ...