ROME—Pope Francis has appointed two cardinals and an archbishop as new members of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. The country’s frozen pork inventory fell as deliveries from importers and ...

Pilgrimage was the focus of his talk as the Catholic Church celebrates its Jubilee Year of Hope 2025, a once-in-a-quarter ...

Ranking the 16 high school basketball semistate semifinal games on Saturday: 16. Manchester (23-2) vs. Jimtown (16-10), Class 2A at Michigan City (1 p.m.) Something sneaky about t ...

Join us Tuesday, April 8 at Southern Methodist University in Dallas as we convene Texas journalists, public scholars, and community leaders to explore how religion shapes our state and how journalism ...

In my own work as a sociologist, I organize this concept of the sacred into seven specific dimensions. For example, the ...

A look at Wabash Valley boys basketball sectional games that were not staffed by the Tribune-Star on Friday and Saturday ...

The leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics has spent time at the Gemelli before, notably for colon surgery in 2021 and a hernia operation in 2023. This hospitalisation has been more serious ...

Weeks later, as the Holy Father was hospitalized with serious respiratory issues, Angelenos joined Catholics around the world in fervent prayer for the pope’s physical and spiritual health. Prayers ...

Catholics are one of the largest religious groups in the United States, outnumbering any single Protestant denomination. The U.S. has more Catholics than all but three other countries – Brazil, Mexico ...

Christians observing Lent were allowed only one meal a day and were forbidden from eating meat or fish during the entire period. This tradition was relaxed by Roman Catholics around World War II.

A new book has told the history of the Catholic Church through the last seven popes. AP What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by ...

The recent public spat between Vice President JD Vance and the U.S. Catholic bishops over the church’s position on immigration may suggest that there is no common ground between the Trump ...