There is no room in Augustine’s concept of authority for one who is self-seeking and in search of power over others,” he ...

One of the most significant powers the Pope possesses is the ability to excommunicate individuals from the Church.

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating an “anti-Catholic law” in Washington state that threatens priests with up to one year in jail if they fail to report child ...

The secrecy of the confessional in the Roman Catholic Church is so sacrosanct that ... The investigation will focus on the law’s “apparent conflict” with religious freedom under the First ...

This follows President Donald Trump’s Feb. 19 executive order in which his administration resolved to dismantle USIP under ...

What no one saw coming was that somewhere across years of this essentially sectarian conflict, the American Catholic Church, still reeling from endemic molestations and cover-ups, began looking ...

The new pontiff, who was chosen as leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday (May 8), has travelled extensively in Asia where ...

Robert Francis Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pope to lead the global Catholic Church, following a ... for future change and any ensuing conflict. In some of Leo’s earliest ...

As Pope Leo XIV takes over an often divided Roman Catholic Church and the most prominent pulpit on earth, his voice will be ...

The Catholic Church maintains that only men can be ordained as priests, viewing this not as a cultural tradition but as unchangeable divine law ... mediating in conflict zones, Morelli believes ...