I hope the next Holy Father desires to be a faithful steward of the heritage and rich traditions of the Church. People crave ...

United Congregational Church marked a joyful milestone with a Daffodil Dedication to celebrate its 330th anniversary. Though ...

Only on Pittsburgh's Action News 4 did the pastor, who stared down the barrel of a gun, and the deacon who jumped into action, share their reflections one year later. Sign up for our Newsletters "It's ...

Zerkowski had plenty to say because Francis’ writing and teaching had allowed him to start an LGBTQ ministry at Historic St.

Majorities want the church to allow use of birth control and IVF, and to permit priests to bless same-sex couples. But views ...

One day while puttering around at home, David Church put on the History Channel. His ears perked up when he heard that Thomas ...

Despite this, women can still be nuns, altar servers, lectors and hold other leadership positions in the Catholic Church – just not the priesthood. Women can serve as nuns in the Catholic Church ...

Today’s newsletter explains. Beyond his predecessors In March 2013, one day before Francis became pope, James Carroll, a former priest and columnist for this newspaper, compared the church’s ...

But few could have predicted that appearance would be his last and that just hours later, he would leave unfinished his ambitious project of reimagining the world’s largest Christian church and ...

Pope Francis, Paternostro said, "showed the world what Jesuits can be at our best: a true evangelist, a true son of Ignatius and (as he has described himself repeatedly) a true son of the Church." ...

Francis' headlining changes were a softening of the Church's stance on homosexuality and contraception, an openness to women carrying out leadership positions within the church, and a rejection of ...

MAYFIELD, Ky. — The Easter holiday commemorates the most famous resurrection, but First Baptist Church in Mayfield celebrated its own rebirth as the congregation officially returned to its ...