A wider battle over the future of the Catholic Church is fuelling conflict over the leadership and direction of an Australian ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is ...

A group of 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns executed during the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution were canonised by Pope Francis on December 18.

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "The Trinity:" 232 ... It is the most fundamental and essential teaching in the 'hierarchy of the truths of faith'. [GCD 43.] ...

In one sense that could be seen as boring and tedious, but it goes to the heart of what is involved in procedural, cultural and structural reform necessary to propel the Catholic Church into a ...

In his new autobiography, Pope Francis outlines a recipe for “infinite possibilities” that will please neither conservatives ...

More concerned with the action itself than with the theory behind it,’ Torres was relieved of his orders in 1965, after which ...

Both are consequential appointments, but two out of 11 does not significantly move the hierarchy in the pastoral direction to which Pope Francis has called the church. The failure to appoint new ...

An Australian church pastor has died after being attacked by a shark while spearfishing with his family off the coast of Central Queensland. Luke Walford, 40, was mauled by the shark on Saturday ...

Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona Brambilla, to become prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic ...