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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.