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The Diocese of Providence is inviting the community to a farewell Mass for Archbishop Richard Henning, who will be leaving ...

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to settle claims of clergy sexual abuse, marking the largest settlement of its kind with a Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.

In a move which tightens a previous 2004 surrogacy ban, Italy has officially banned its citizens from seeking surrogates ...

In a letter to Catholics in the Middle East on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, Pope Francis ...

The decentralization of certain aspects of the Catholic Church's governance, as proposed in the Synod of Bishops on ...

A historically Catholic country, since the 1950s Belgium has seen a significant decline in the number of its practicing ...

At the 2019 Synod on the Amazon, the Brazilian cardinal also emerged as a staunch defender of the ordination of married men.

The specific issue of the doctrinal competence of bishops’ conferences, and what that might look like concretely, “got a lot ...

An Italian publisher announced the global release in January of "Hope," a book it described as Pope Francis' autobiography, ...

Italian lawmakers passed a law on Wednesday making it illegal for couples to travel to the United States and other countries ...

Pope Francis called on divided Christians to overcome their doctrinal differences and walk together in love, expressing hope ...