Catholic voters swung behind Donald Trump in the election. But his and Pope Francis’ visions couldn’t be further apart on ...

Cardinal Miguel Ayuso Guixot, a leading Vatican expert on Islam, died on Monday (Nov. 25) at the Gemelli Hospital in Rome, ...

This has been a blockbuster election year politically, so it’s fitting that a new movie shines a light on an ancient and ...

The Irish-born cardinal, who was bishop of Dallas for nine years before his transfer to Rome, has also been chair of the ...

"We are all fully aware now that urgent structural measures, which can no longer be postponed, are needed to achieve ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis is facing ... In recent months, one critic, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Tex., was stripped ...

Within a few short decades after the founding of the American Catholic hierarchy in ... At best, then, a bishop has at his disposal very crude instruments of change. Pope John XXIII's reported ...

When Pope Paul VI solemnly reaffirmed the Catholic ... of this power better than the career of Boston's flamboyant Cardinal Archbishop William Henry O'Connell. AT THE TURN of the century the ...

The problem in the church is exacerbated given women make up a majority of churchgoers while an all-male hierarchy ... notices,” one cardinal told CNN afterwards about the pope’s move.

A necessary (but not sufficient) gauge of sincerity for a bishop pledged to reform is public repudiation of Cardinal Tobin ... The Catholic hierarchy in the U.S. apparently think that accepting ...

Earlier this month, he fired Joseph Strickland, a conservative Texas bishop who ... in the Church The Pope, in turn, has demoted Cardinal Burke within the church hierarchy or moved him to posts ...