Occasionally they remember to call him by his new name, Pope Leo XIV, but it’s unfamiliar to their tongue. One of the guests ...

The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression.

A camp for children aged 7-11 to learn Spanish across many different cultures is underway this week at All Saints Catholic Church in Bridgeport for the second year, with this edition focusing on ...

The second issue driving communities to evangelical churches might be the Catholic Church’s priest shortage, which means fewer faith leaders are now serving larger groups of people, said Smilde.

A woman embraces a statue of José Gregorio Hernandez in Valencia, Venezuela, honoring the physician who was canonized by Pope Francis as Venezuela's first saint on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025.

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 ...

This could mean the persecution of priests and other clergy in Venezuela, a Venezuelan-born fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Daniel DiMartino, says. Mr. DiMartino tells the Sun that the church’s ...

In the mid-1940s, a socialist political branch prevented the Catholic Church from providing religious education.

Bishops attend an open-air mass by Pope Francis in Ecatepec, Mexico City, in 2016. On April 2, 2024, a Catholic Bishop was deported from Mexico to Venezuela. GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP/Getty Images ...

Some critics of the church’s response believe that Venezuela’s bishops should be more outspoken in challenging the Maduro regime, and that they may be hobbled by fear of a Nicaragua-style ...

The prelate said that God manifests to the Church in Venezuela — through the Divine Shepherdess — what his will is and invited all the faithful to make an effort to know and understand what ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — The Catholic Church in Venezuela has reopened its investigation into a priest who was convicted of sexually abusing a child but was later returned to the ministry, officials ...