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Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has become the most visited place in France. Since reopening its doors, it has welcomed more ...
The Santa Marta residence, a modern building with a common dining room, became the nerve centre of the more than 1.3 billion-member Roman Catholic Church.
The art depicting our saints is a modern painting by Zbigniew Kotyłło, adorning the Capuchin church in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, about 60 miles southwest of Warsaw.
The new pope has taken a name that recalls Pope Leo XIII, who wrote the outline for modern Catholic social justice teaching.
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.
A year after the first revelations of sexual abuse by the French priest and homeless charity founder Abbé Pierre, twelve new ...
The protest is spearheaded in France by Le Comité de la Jupe — the Skirt Committee — a feminist Catholic association that has campaigned since 2009 for greater gender equality within the Church.
Historic St. Mary's City, a Maryland-based museum and archaeological organization, is opening up a reconstructed 17th-century Catholic Church called the Brick Chapel on Apr. 12.
At stake is the direction of the Catholic Church, a 2,000-year-old institution with huge global influence but which is struggling to adapt to the modern world and recover its reputation after the ...
Some 133 Catholic cardinals will enter a conclave on Wednesday to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died April 21 aged 88. The Church’s 1.4 billion members await the outcome, with debate ...
The Catholic Church in France has called on prosecutors to investigate allegations of serious sexual abuse by the once venerated priest Abbé Pierre, who died in 2007. Only the courts had the ...