COMMENTARY: Liturgical vestments like copes, chasubles and dalmatics are part of the beauty of the liturgy, alongside church ...

Franciscan Father Michael S. Murray was appointed pastor of St. John Neumann Church in Reston Jan. 2. Bishop Michael F.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis fell Thursday and hurt his right arm, the Vatican said, just weeks after another apparent fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin. Francis didn’t break his arm ...

HEATH − St. Leonard Catholic Church, organized in 1962, three years before Heath became a city, will celebrate its final Mass on Feb. 2, when Bishop Earl Fernandes will preside. The bishop ...

Pope Francis has increasingly shown his age in recent years, as he now almost always uses a wheelchair to move around and has occasional problems with breathlessness. At Christmas Eve Mass in St ...

Pope Francis has suffered a fall and injured his ... The pontiff, who has led the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church since 2013, turned 88 in December and often uses a cane or a wheelchair to ...

Join the community that powers NYC’s independent local news. St. Francis College, a Catholic institution that’s been in the heart of Downtown Brooklyn for 166 years, fired around 17 employees ...

“Everyone in the Church is invited [for a blessing], including people who are divorced, including people who are homosexual, including people who are transgender,” Francis adds ...

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Pope Francis was handed a “large white box” full of documents on “abuse” and “dark dealings” in the Catholic Church over a decade ago when he took over from his predecessor. The pope on Tuesday ...

One of Pope Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility, as seen in his decisions to live in a Vatican guesthouse and carry his own briefcase ...

Not even the Pope can resist the temptation. So this month Pope Francis, the first Latin American and the first Jesuit to head the Catholic Church, goes where other pontiffs have not. Hope ...