Bishop Ronald Hicks, 58, will succeed Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who has led New York, the second-largest U.S. archdiocese by ...

The Vatican has unveiled its Nativity scene and lit the towering Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square. A band and chorus from ...

A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons. The Vatican on Thursday took ...

The group was split 5-5 on a statement that held Jesus' masculinity and that of all who receive holy orders "is not ...

If the church approaches women’s discernment with condescension instead of curiosity, it risks undermining the process of ...

A newly released Vatican document on women deacons has sparked anger among Catholic reformers, revealing deep resistance to ...

A selection of items returned by the Vatican is now at the Canadian Museum of History after First Nations, Inuit and Métis ...

The Vatican's children's hospital is calling an Associated Press investigation into quality of care problems a "hoax." In a statement Monday, the Bambino Gesu Pediatric Hospital again threatened legal ...

Over 1,000 LGBTQ Catholics and their families walked through the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica this weekend as part of a Jubilee pilgrimage listed on the Vatican’s official Holy Year calendar. The ...

The Vatican newspaper has declared that Homer Simpson is part of the pope's flock — a claim that leaves "The Simpsons" TV producer baffled. "Few people know it and he does everything to hide it but it ...