Photos: Catholics around the Lehigh Valley attended services to mark Ash Wednesday, observed on the first day of Lent.

Pope Francis’s battle with double pneumonia is the most serious health complication the pontiff has suffered from since ...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts is challenging a city mayor’s plan to erect statues of two Catholic ...

The students at St. Peter School attended Mass at the church on Ash Wednesday, with each student receiving ashes on their ...

It’s Ash Wednesday, a day to mark the first day of Lent for many Christian groups including Catholics, Lutherans, and ...

Irish nationalist groups active in the U.S. – the Fenians, Clan na Gael and, later, Irish Northern Aid – participated in ...

This is the 10th year that St. Matthew Church in Norwalk hit the streets with its Ashes-to-Go bus, where it meets the faithful where they are on Ash Wednesday.

Antonio Masiello/Getty Images His health crisis has raised public speculation of him resigning as leader of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin has said this is unfounded.

Vatican News announced that Pope Francis had a quiet night and is showing a mild health improvement amid his battle with ...

It trusts that the Holy Spirit guides the Church ... Getty Images) I do not see how it is possible to say that one recognizes the validity of the Council — though it amazes me that a Catholic ...

The camerlengo informs the College of Cardinals, a governing body of senior church ... throughout the Catholic world. Argentina’s Jorge Mario Bergoglio is the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years ...