The word itself predates Christianity, but the conclave with its secretive deliberations and ancient trappings still captures ...

Volunteers from Rochester’s Holy Apostles Church have begun a project to refurbish the church’s century-old Stations of the ...

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but ...

Allentown Bishop Alfred Schlert said Pope Francis “reminded the faithful that the Church is a hospital for the sinner and not ...

I’m a believer. Not in a higher power, but in the power of sacred spaces to move, challenge, educate and uplift me.

A unique Holy Week tradition is drawing thousands of Catholic pilgrims to a small adobe church in the hills of northern New ...

Gaudí, nicknamed "God's architect," was declared "venerable" by Pope Francis this week, putting him one step closer to ...

Nazareth Seminary is working with University of Mary’s “Mary College,” a satellite academic institution partnered with ...

The 51-year-old Catholic Church leader who was Consecrated Bishop of Torit in ... which prohibits acts of hostility to works of Arts or places of Worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual ...

A century-plus old house ... the United Church has approached developer Aryze with the goal of transforming the property with the conduction of 130 units of rental housing, plus a new arts centre ...

Now, the attention in the Vatican is on how the 88-year-old pontiff will lead the Catholic Church following what ... that life was about to imitate art. Dr. Sergio Alfieri, head of the medical ...