The Catholic Church has approved the canonization of its first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, a young Italian teenager who died in 2006. The decision is expected to energize young Catholics like ...

After the war, the Church boosted Christian Democratic parties in Italy, France, and Germany; endorsed an independence movement led by the Catholic Léopold Senghor in Senegal; backed the Catholic ...

Amid a record number of baptisms, turning the page on the abuse crisis and rapidly changing society, an "Observatory of ...

A Montana student has found himself at the center of one of the most extraordinary moments in modern Catholic Church history. KPAX Missoula, MT Posted: May 12, 2025 | Last updated: May 12, 2025 ...

The greatest test in the history of the modern Catholic Church began at 2 a.m. on July 6, 1809. That’s when French troops swarmed the Quirinal Palace in Rome. The midnight arrest of Pope Pius ...

It was the first full meeting of France’s Roman Catholic hierarchy since 1907, when vigorous anticlericalism had placed the church on the defensive, deprived it of state support.

About 190 victims of child sexual abuse by priests or other church representatives have been promised financial compensation so far from France’s Catholic Church under a sweeping reparations ...

The Catholic church long declared homosexuality a “depravity”, ... in France alone an estimated 200,000 children were abused by priests between 1950 ... Modern histories pay less ...

An important international conference in Rome on May 21 marks the 100th anniversary of the first Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in China. Here’s what you need to know.

Archaeologists uncovered remains of a Roman-era city beneath Melun, France, revealing Roman homes, roads and wells.

He defined a conservative course for the Roman Catholic Church, ... Agence France-Presse — Getty ... that year by Pope John XXIII to attune the nearly 2,000-year-old church to the modern world.

For with “In Plurimis” and his follow-up encyclical, “Catholicae Ecclesiae,” Leo XIII did something astounding: He changed the church’s teaching on slavery. The Catholic Church, for the ...