Roman Catholic Church News

Two Salvadorans who mediated in a gang truce in their country that cut the homicide rate by at least 50 percent met Monday with gang leaders in Honduras, where they will help do the same.

VATICAN CITY a?? One-hundred days after becoming the first non-European pope since the eighth century, the main difference between Francis and his European predecessors is one more of style than of concrete action.

The Cuban-born bishop was Pueblo's fourth bishop, serving there since 2009. The Pueblo Diocese covers 48,000 square miles and 53 parishes.

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Rome - An Italian Catholic activist and journalist who was declared a Righteous Gentile for saving Jewish lives during World War II has formally been put on the road to sainthood by the Roman Catholic church.

That made the Gary, Ind., teen the youngest person ever in the state to face the death penalty.

The diocese received the allegation of abuse of a minor against Father Justin Werner, a senior priest, back on April 20. The abuse, which Fr.

Police say a gunman walked into a Catholic church and shot a man in the back of the head during Mass on Sunday in Ogden.

An Indiana woman put on death row at age 16 for killing an elderly Bible school teacher is being released.

Wounded people lie on the ground as Roman Catholic nuns run for cover after a blast at the St. Joseph Mfanyakazi Roman Catholic Church in Arusha, Tanzania Sunday, May 5, 2013.

Washington's Archbishop, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, ordained the six men on Saturday during a ceremony at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in northeast Washington.

Picture this: It wasn't easy, but you and your husband were able to set aside enough money so that you could remove your ten-year-old daughter from the public school and enroll her at a Catholic school where you expected her to get a good education in a wholesome moral environment.

A veteran teacher at a Catholic school has lost her job because school officials are worried her ex-husband, now serving a jail sentence for domestic abuse and stalking, will pose a danger to students and teachers when he is released.

The Roman Catholic bishop of Stockton is warning parishioners that his diocese might run out of money before it has paid damages to all of the people who have sued over clergy sex abuse.

The priest, of St Peter's Catholic Church, in Abbey Street, Eynsham, will be reading aloud as much of the Bible as possible in one day.

It's a key job that has been left vacant since 2011: The prelate oversees the bank's activities, attends its board meetings and, critically, has access to all its documentation.

Check the latest missive from SNAP citing the ongoing Catholic Church turmoil in the aftermath of a Kansas City sex scandal.

The White House announced Friday that President Barack Obama will nominate Ken Hackett, the former president of Catholic Relief Services to be the United States' ambassador to the Vatican.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi made more eye-rolling comments yesterday when she called defending legal abortions to the point of opposing a late-term abortion ban 'sacred ground.'

President Barack Obama is tapping his former campaign finance chairman, an HBO executive and the head of a major Catholic charity to be U.S. ambassadors.