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With 120 parishes, the Catholic Church in Paris is one of the biggest diocese in Europe... READ MORE›

AS POPE FRANCIS VISITS, CHILEANS QUESTION THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

Just 36 percent of Chileans have confidence in the Catholic Church -- the lowest in all of Latin America -- according to the Chilean newspaper, La Tercera... READ MORE›

A BLOT ON IRELANDS PAST, FACING DEMOLITION

Owned most recently by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge, the Gloucester Street laundry usually had around 100 workers at any one time... READ MORE›

HIGH PRAISE: POT CHURCHES PROLIFERATE AS STATES EASE ACCESS TO MARIJUANA

Nationally, such churches have opened in Indiana, where marijuana remains illegal, and Michigan, where medical marijuana is allowed... READ MORE›

POPE OKS FIRST STEP TOWARD SAINTHOOD FOR 'ROSARY PRIEST'

The Vatican said Tuesday that Pope Francis had approved a decree asserting that Peyton lived a life of heroic Christian virtue... READ MORE›

'LOUD FENCE' RIBBONS REMOVED FROM BALLARAT CATHEDRAL THREE DAYS AFTER ROYAL COMMISSION FINDINGS

He said abuse survivors had requested that the ribbons stay on the fence until the royal commission ended... READ MORE›

'I'M GOING TO CANBERRA': FOR ABUSE SURVIVOR ROB WALSH, THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE HASN'T ENDED

'I'm going to Canberra' For abuse survivor Rob Walsh, the fight for justice hasn't ended... READ MORE›

'CHANGES MUST BE MADE': SHOCKING AUSTRALIAN CHILD ABUSE INQUIRY ENDS

That was the stark warning of an exhaustive five-year investigation by an Australia Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse that concluded Thursday... READ MORE›

ARCHBISHOP REJECTS CALL TO REPORT CONFESSIONS

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse had the power to look at any private, public or non-government body involved with children... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN CHILD ABUSE INQUIRY RECOMMENDS END TO MANDATORY CELIBACY FOR CLERGY

Prosecute clergy for failing to report abuse Recommendations include the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference request that the Vatican consider introducing voluntary celibacy for clergy... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIA CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE INQUIRY REPORTS 'CATASTROPHIC FAILURES OF LEADERSHIP'

It also claimed celibacy contributed to child abuse and that it should be made voluntary for clergy in the Catholic Church... READ MORE›

AUSTRALIAN ABUSE REPORT CALLS FOR END TO SANCTITY OF CONFESSION

The inquiry heard previously that the Australian Catholic Church paid A 276 million 212 million in compensation to thousands of child abuse victims since 1980... READ MORE›

SILENCED SWISS BELLS CAN RING AGAIN

A Swiss church can once again ring its bells throughout the night after a federal court overturned a legal decision to limit them to hourly peals... READ MORE›

AFTER 100 YEARS, SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION IS FINISHED

The Roman Catholic Church teaches that the merits of Jesus kept Mary's soul immaculate... READ MORE›

AMERICAN EVANGELIST LEADS RARE EVENT IN COMMUNIST VIETNAM

We don't want to do anything that would embarrass the government or the people of Vietnam... READ MORE›

LOST IN TRANSLATION? POPE PONDERS AN UPDATE TO LORDS PRAYER

Pope Francis has generally shown a willingness to rethink liturgical translations... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS CALLS FOR POLICE TO SHOW DRIVERS 'MERCY'

At a meeting with traffic police in Italy, Pope Francis urged them to show mercy towards those who break the rules of the road... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS ADMITS HE SOMETIMES FALLS ASLEEP WHILE PRAYING

Pope Francis has admitted that he sometimes nods off while praying... READ MORE›

IT'S BETTER TO BE AN ATHEIST THAN A BAD CHRISTIAN

Atheists cause less scandal then Christians who talk one way and act another, Pope Francis said... READ MORE›

A VATICAN SHOT ACROSS THE BOW FOR HARD-LINE U.S. CATHOLICS

American Catholic conservatives once unacquainted with being out of papal favor have stewed privately and expressed horror publicly on numerous right-wing Catholic blogs... READ MORE›

PRIEST TELLS ANTI-TRUMP PROTESTERS TO COMMIT SUICIDE

Philip Pizzo just hours after he celebrated Sunday Mass... READ MORE›

STEVE BANNON CARRIES BATTLES TO ANOTHER INFLUENTIAL HUB

Mr. Bannon publicly articulated his worldview in remarks a few months after his meeting with Cardinal Burke, at a Vatican conference organized by Mr. Harnwell's institute... READ MORE›

GEORGE PELL TOLD TO FACE COURT ON HISTORICAL SEXUAL ASSAULT CHARGES

Australia's most senior Catholic cleric, Cardinal George Pell, is charged with historical sexual assault offences... READ MORE›

TRUDEAU ASKS POPE FRANCIS TO APOLOGISE FOR SCHOOLS

In 2008, former prime minister Stephen Harper issued an apology on behalf of Canadians, calling it a sad chapter in our history ... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS ENCOURAGES MOTHERS TO BREASTFEED IN SISTINE CHAPEL

Pope Francis has encouraged women attending a ceremony in the Sistine Chapel to feel free to breastfeed their children in the church... READ MORE›

PHILIPPINE CATHOLIC CHURCH ABUSERS RARELY PROSECUTED

Jaime Achacoso, a lawyer and expert on the Catholic Church's canon law, said priests found guilty of sexual misconduct had not been removed from ministry... READ MORE›

ISLAM WILL BE LARGEST RELIGION IN THE WORLD BY 2070, SAYS REPORT

It also says that Muslims will make up 10 per cent of Europe's population... READ MORE›

KEEP THE FAITH IN OUR TRYING TIMES

The pope usually conducts an Urbu et Orbi blessing -- Latin for To the City and the World -- just after the Easter Mass... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS ALLOWS PRIESTS TO ABSOLVE 'GRAVE SIN' OF ABORTION

Post to Facebook Pope Francis allows priests to absolve 'grave sin' of abortion The pope also opposed the death penalty... READ MORE›

TRUDEAU INVITES POPE TO CANADA FOR APOLOGY TO NATIVES

READ MORE Canada accused of 'cultural genocide' Trudeau said he and the pope also discussed climate change... READ MORE›

POPE AIDE GEORGE PELL CHARGED WITH CHILD SEX ABUSE

For years, Pell has faced allegations that he mishandled cases of clergy abuse when he was archbishop of Melbourne and, later, Sydney... READ MORE›

'FALSE PROPHET': DUTERTE, THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE FIGHT FOR THE SOUL OF THE PHILIPPINES

Relatives and friends of victims of extrajudicial killings leave Manila's Baclaran Church for a vigil Feb. 17, 2017... READ MORE›

TRUDEAU ASKS POPE FOR AN APOLOGY OVER CHURCH'S ROLE IN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS

Afterward, Trudeau introduced his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, to the Pope along with officials from the PMO... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS: MARRIED MEN COULD BE ORDAINED TO EASE PRIEST SHORTAGES

Pope Francis has said the Catholic church may consider ordaining married men who could potentially then work in remote areas faced with a shortage of priests... READ MORE›

DUTERTE'S WAR ON DRUGS A 'REIGN OF TERROR', CHURCH SAYS

The Philippines' Catholic Church has blasted President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs for creating a reign of terror ... READ MORE›

C OF E ARCHBISHOPS CALL ON CHRISTIANS TO REPENT FOR REFORMATION SPLIT

Five hundred years after the Reformation, the religious revolution that swept across Europe, the leaders of the Church of England... READ MORE›

THE POPE'S 'BLIND SPOT' ON SEXUAL ABUSE

Charges of sexual assault against one of the Pope's top advisers, Cardinal George Pell, highlights what one observer calls Francis' blind spot on sexual abuse... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS: CHRISTMAS 'HOSTAGE TO MATERIALISM'

During a high-security Christmas Mass at the Vatican, the head of the Roman Catholic Church also denounced the continuing suffering of children... READ MORE›

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, POPE FRANCIS - FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T RETIRE

Will the catholic church ever earn women's forgiveness?... READ MORE›

CARDINAL GEORGE PELL'S LEGAL BILLS WON'T BE PAID BY SYDNEY ARCHDIOCESE, ARCHBISHOP SAYS

The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney says it will not pay its former archbishop Cardinal George Pell's legal costs... READ MORE›

I SAW PSYCHOANALYST WEEKLY YEARS AGO

Pope Francis I saw psychoanalyst weekly years ago... READ MORE›

RBS WORKER CLAIMS PUERILE PRANCING MILLIONAIRE RUSSELL BRAND RUINED HIS LUNCH

That gave the United States another channel to deliver messages to the Cuban authorities... READ MORE›

POPE CONDEMNS RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION

Related Stories Pope Francis has denounced the brutal persecution of religious and ethnic minorities, in his traditional Christmas Day address... READ MORE›

Closing the address, he called on Jesus' strength to turn "arms into plowshares, destruction into creativity, hatred into love and tenderness." In Britain, the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev... READ MORE›

YOUNG AMERICANS SHIFTING US TOWARDS BECOMING LESS RELIGIOUS NATION

Growing numbers of millennials who are unaffiliated or atheists are causing vast changes in the American religious landscape, report says... READ MORE›

IN THIS COUNTRY LITERALLY NO YOUNG CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT GOD CREATED THE EARTH

As of last year, about 75 percent of Iceland's inhabitants were registered members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS BEGINS EGYPT TRIP TO SHOW UNITY WITH EMBATTLED CHRISTIANS

Pope John Paul II visited Egypt in February 2000... READ MORE›

CARDINAL CORMAC MURPHY-O'CONNOR DIES AT 85

Retired leader of Roman Catholic church in England and Wales was appointed cardinal by pope in 2001... READ MORE›