Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church have been chosen at the Vatican in private gatherings known as conclaves or precisely 'Papal Conclave'.

Built on land donated by Pope Pius XI to the theologian and physician Agostino Gemelli in 1934, it has become known as the ...

On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial" means of birth control. Condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps were defined as artificial, since they blocked ...

Still, nearly a dozen years after the Pope's initial statement, official church doctrine remains largely unchanged, and there remains no room in the Roman Catholic Church for same-sex marriage.

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first ...