The Roman Empire gave its place to the Roman Catholic Church. Photo of the facade of the Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy. Credit: Alvesgaspar Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 When the Roman Empire ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned ... In the year 300, the Council of Elvira, a local church council in Spain, passed specific legislation condemning abortion (Canon 63).

Ash Wednesday marks the start of Lent, a 40-day period of penance and prayer that ends at Easter. For observant Christians, ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic ... Church, Primate of Italy; hmong others. As the Bishop of Rome he is the head of the Latin or Roman ...

Let’s go to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium in section 20, and Pope Clement (A.D. 80), to give us the writings that explain why Christ instituted the doctrine ...

The subtitle of the book is a series of unfriendly characterizations: “The Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and ...

A recent study shows that while the percentage of the white, Black, and Asian adults in the U.S. who identify as Catholic has ...

Ash Wednesday falls on Wednesday, March 5. The liturgical celebration marks the beginning of the Lenten season for Catholics, which ends on Easter Sunday, April 20. Other Christian churches offer ...

The 88-year-old prayed on Saturday morning in the chapel of the papal suite at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, the Vatican said. A man who claimed he was sexually abused in school by Fr Malachy Finegan ...

In a quiet corner of this Oxfordshire town, the small Catholic Church of St ... England the world's largest concentration of married Roman Catholic priests. "Though I tried to resist the Catholic ...

If we are witnessing the moral collapse of the United States government and people, where is the Catholic Church in all of this ... fascist regimes in Chile, Spain, Italy, Croatia, Hungry ...