For more than a century, the Catholic Church financed its expansion and its institutions with profits made from the purchase and sale of people they enslaved. This chapter of Church history has only ...

Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., in an undated photo. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Born Clarence John Davis in Washington, D.C., in 1930, Davis was raised in a Congregational church but became Catholic as a ...

ope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra ...

(RNS) — The church depends on donations from nations whose better off have been educated on the baptismal equality of all persons. (RNS) — Winston Churchill famously said, “Those who forget history ...

The Catholic Church has specific theological and canonical reasons why a woman cannot be appointed as pope. These reasons are primarily based on tradition, doctrine, and the interpretation of ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Archbishop Thomas Rodi recalls the first time that a woman connected to the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage trail looked through the records of the Catholic Church ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, making him the first pontiff to be from the United States. Shortly after being elected pope, the 69 ...