As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

Phyliss Zagano, a Hofstra professor who was on a papal panel studying the issue, has high hopes that the next pontiff will ...

Amarillo Bishop Patrick James Zurek spoke about his experiences of meeting Pope Francis during a special evening Memorial ...

Don Richard, a deacon at St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Metairie, died on Monday, twenty minutes before Pope ...

A document released earlier this month showed that the commission in charge of the elaboration of the Amazonian Rite will ...

During the Francis papacy, the role of women in the church emerged as a pressing priority, with Catholics across the globe ...

Pope Francis died after facing several health issues. Many across the world, including in Arkansas, are mourning his death.

This is the sacred terrain of what the Church calls the ars celebrandi ... Keywords: diaconate catholic deacons Deacon Dominic Cerrato Deacon Dominic Cerrato, Ph.D., is the director of the ...

Photos: Christians at church services around the Lehigh Valley, including St. Anne Roman Catholic Church in Bethlehem, marked Palm Sunday, which begins Holy Week.

There have been twelve Greek Popes in the history of the papacy, with Saint Peter considered to be the first Catholic leader.

Courtney Mares is a Rome Correspondent for Catholic News Agency ... the cardinal proto deacon will announce to the Church and the world the “‘gaudium magnum’ (‘great joy’) of having ...