The proposal comes amid renewed tensions following Pope Francis’ 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which significantly ...

In this 2012 file photo, choir members sing during the annual Black History Month Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. The Mass, sponsored by the Archdiocese of New York’s Office of Black ...

In this April 14, 2020 photo, Father Michael Lewis gathers materials at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to deliver last rites to a patient at University Medical Center in El Paso, Texas. Lewis is only able to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The death of a pope starts a centuries-old ritual involving sacred oaths by the cardinals electing a successor, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread after they’re ...

A few years after Father Joe Krupp’s mother died in 2015, the priest got an idea: Why not have Dad move in? The four-bedroom rectory at Church of the Holy Family in Grand Blanc, Michigan, built in the ...

A Catholic bishop called on Tuesday for greater recognition of the last rites as an “emergency service” in the wake of the killing of British lawmaker Sir David Amess. Bishop Mark Davies of Shrewsbury ...

"It works! It really works!" Mary (not her real name) is a parish faith formation coordinator and had traveled across the state to participate in our workshop on the upcoming changes to the Rite of ...

The services and rituals of the Roman Catholic faith were explained to more than 300 Protestant and Jewish women this afternoon at a meeting held in Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church under the ...

The papal trip to Iraq held great promise. Pope Francis would be the first pope, ever, in Iraq. He would be the first pope, ever, to meet with Muslim leaders there. He would be the first pope, ever, ...

A Catholic priest said on Sunday that he respected the police’s decision not to grant him access to a crime scene to give the last rites to the British lawmaker Sir David Amess. In a now-deleted video ...

Dalit Christian organizations in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu have demanded a separate rite for Dalit Catholics as a solution to caste-based discrimination in the Indian Church. Dalit ...

The head of Ukraine’s Eastern Rite Catholic Church on Saturday said a document endorsed by Pope Francis this week permitting blessings for same-sex couples did not apply to his church and its ...