VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis appointed an apostolic visitor on Wednesday for Eritrean Catholics in the United States and Canada. The Pope named Father Tesfaldet Tekie Tsada, chaplain of the Eritrean ...

Twenty Catholic and evangelical Protestant scholars have issued a joint statement on where both traditions are unified and where they are distinct in their understandings of the four marks of the ...

The last time the Catholic Church’s sex abuse crisis made headlines, it was a story about bad priests. John Geoghan, Paul Shanley, Ronald Paquin—priests who abused boys in the Archdiocese of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Barry Dean, a native of Wetumpka, met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican last week and received an apostolic blessing for the Association of Catholic Coaches and Athletes (ACCA).

Archbishop Noël Treanor, the Irish prelate who had served as apostolic nuncio to the European Union since 2023, died of a heart attack on Sunday at age 73. Before being appointed nuncio in late 2022, ...

I write in response to the Thursday, July 11, Forum article: "Vatican decree gets F-M response" and in particular the statement: "Protestant faiths ... have not preserved apostolic succession in ...

The letters — sent May 18 to every parish in the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, bearing Pentecost greetings from Bishop Louis Tylka — were expected. For some of the diocese's faith communities, they ...

The apostolic nunciature in Iraq reported on Sunday, Feb. 28 that the Nuncio Mitja Leskovar, has tested positive for COVID less than a week before Pope Francis trip to the country. "The Apostolic ...

Here’s a powerful First Things column from the veteran Catholic writer Philip Lawler, weighing in on the meaning of the McCarrick affair. Excerpts: Newark’s Cardinal Joseph Tobin (who, by the way, is ...

Two bishops conducted a fact-finding visit to the Knoxville diocese late last year. A former church employee and a church member have filed sexual abuse lawsuits against the diocese. Two priests told ...

The apostolic nuncio to Mexico urged the country's bishops to "look reality in the eye" as the country's non-Catholic population increases and Mexicans increasingly identify as nonreligious. Speaking ...