Twitter: @JBickertonUK. You can get in touch with James by emailing [email protected] Washington state Senator Noel Frame has rejected the Catholic Church's claim that it would have to ...

Tune into "The American Pope: Leo XIV," a special edition of "20/20," on Friday night at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT on ABC ... ever held by a woman in the Catholic Church -- McElwee said these changes ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the ...

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report information about child abuse to law enforcement — even if given in ...

With the conclave to select a new Pope beginning on May 7, many are wondering in what direction a new pope will take the Catholic Church. The role of women in the Church is a big issue ...

Ronald Madison Redfield, 92 ... He was a member of St. Mark’s Catholic Church in Burlington, as well as St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Naples. He was also a member of the Burlington YMCA ...

About six months after he was elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis made a surprising admission. A Jesuit priest was interviewing Francis when he departed from a pre-approved list of ...

Rome — Pope Francis, who challenged deeply rooted norms and made it his mission to change the perception of the Catholic Church around the world, has died at the age of 88. The Vatican said Pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons, upheld it in others such as abortion, and made inroads with ...

Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church, died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. On Easter Sunday, he used his message and blessing to appeal for peace in Middle East and Ukraine.

Watch "Francis: The People's Pope 1936-2025," Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET / 9 p.m. CT ... church child sex abuse scandal. He did not specifically reference the pedophilia that has rocked the Roman ...