Transgender Catholics — as well as a priest who welcomes them to his parish — expressed disappointment Monday with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological ...

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Shock and sorrow are rippling through the Catholic community in Cranberry Township following a deadly school shooting at Annunciation Catholic School in Minnesota on ...

A new study shows that a majority of Catholic college and university students say they are informed about the news, which they get primarily through social media, TV or online videos. Only a small ...

(RNS) — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday (April 7) that the bishops would not seek to renew agreements with the federal government for refugee resettlement and children’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Parishioners attend a memorial Mass in honor of Pope Francis at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles on April 21 ...

Andrew Medichini / AP Catholics in the U.S., one of the country's largest single Christian groups, hold far more diverse views on abortion rights than the official teaching of their church. While the ...

This chapter exclusively explores views and experiences among U.S. Catholics (i.e., the 20% of U.S. adults who say they are Catholic when asked about their present religion). Many Americans who are ...

"Nun" was pretty low on the list of Sister Barbara's early career options. "I certainly did not intend to become a sister," she says recently, standing outside her modest Missouri apartment in jeans ...

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is a long shot, though some are cautiously optimistic ...