The case, a major test of the separation of church and state, was an unexpected loss for those advocating a greater role for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Pope Leo XIV is being scrutinized for how he might interact with the Trump administration after its rifts with the late Pope ...

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 ...