U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi met with Pope Francis on Wednesday and received Communion during a papal Mass in St. Peter's ...

The third US authority, a heavyweight in the party, ignores the White House’s warnings and provokes a crisis with her visit ...

The phenomenon of mass shootings “is a grave social problem,” he said, and it would be important to look into the ...

Financial concerns factored into the decisions, but there are suggestions the closures are part of a church effort to tighten ...

When Leo XIII condemned a cocktail of modernist propositions he called “Americanism” in 1899, for example, the very same thing was said – the pope doesn’t understand us and is getting terrible advice, ...

The ruling Chinese Communist Party is officially atheist, and religious believers of all stripes have faced persecution in ...

China cut off contacts with the United States on vital issues Friday — including military matters and crucial climate ...