Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Saint Columbanus, the first ordination of a Luther ...

Black Catholic History Month celebrates the African American leaders in Catholicism. Catholic leaders emphasize year-round ...

Lots of organizations start their conferences on a Thursday. And CROSS, the acronym of Catholic Religious Organizations ...

For more than a century, the Catholic Church financed its expansion and its institutions with profits made from the purchase and sale of people they enslaved. This chapter of Church history has only ...

The Archdiocese of Washington launches a historic initiative to honor people enslaved by the Church in Maryland, including ...

COMMENTARY: The declaration of religious freedom shattered the communist claim that there was no sanctuary of personal ...

During a Nov. 15 commemoration of Black Catholic History Month at Sacred Heart Church in Bowie, Maryland, the Roman Catholic ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

ope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra ...