Tag: Catholic Church

Gunmen burned a Catholic priest to death and shot and injured his colleague in northwest Nigeria on Sunday, police said, ...

The South African Catholic Archbishop Stephen Brislin, has described the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI as a man who respected ...

Italy's Catholic Church is reintroducing handshakes for the "sign of peace" during Mass as part of a wider relaxation of ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has conveyed his condolences to the Dominican Order and the family of Apartheid activist Father Albert Nolan.

Survivors of an attack by unknown assailants on a Catholic church in Nigeria lay weeping and writhing in pain at ...

Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria during mass on Sunday, killing at least 50 people including women and ...

Thousands of Canadians marched on Sunday calling for action after the discovery of hundreds of children’s remains at a Catholic ...

Two days after he married his partner of many years, Anselm Bilgri, a former monk and prior at one of ...

Former Pope Benedict, in a new book written with a conservative cardinal, defends priestly celibacy in the Catholic Church in ...

Pope Francis has banned a former US bishop accused of sexual harassment and of financial mismanagement from performing the liturgy, ...

Gunmen killed six people including a priest outside a Catholic church in Burkina Faso on Sunday, a local official said, ...

Pope Francis issued a landmark decree on Thursday; making bishops directly accountable for sexual abuse or covering it up, requiring ...

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Chilean Cardinal Riccardo Ezzati, who had agreed to step down along with his ...

The private meeting between Cardinal Philippe Barbarin and Pope Francis is expected to take place around 0900 GMT, according to ...

The Catholic Church in South Africa says bishops from around the world had a chance to do serious introspection about ...

Pope Francis kicks off a red-letter global child protection summit Thursday for reflections on the sex abuse crisis, while victims ...

After years of struggling alone or finding support in national groups, survivors of sex abuse by priests have formed a ...

Pope Francis will gather bishops from around the world at the Vatican this week for a hotly-awaited summit on tackling ...

The runner-up in Democratic Republic of Congo's presidential election, Martin Fayulu, in fact thrashed the official winner with more than ...

Congo’s Catholic Church, one of the country’s most respected institutions, challenged Thursday’s official results from a chaotic presidential election, suggesting ...