Philip Shenon talks about the past seven popes, and how efforts to reform the Church with the Second Vatican Council led to power struggles and doctrinal debates that lasted for decades.

Pope Francis was on the minds of everyone who came to mass at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in North Hollywood Sunday morning, including Cardinal Roger Mahony.

Armed men stabbed a Catholic priest to death while he was alone inside a church last week in the northwest Sagaing region of civil war-ravaged Mynamar earlier this month

Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who instructed his followers to “suffer little children” is therefore now better known for making children suffer: in France alone an estimated 200,000 children were abused by priests between 1950 and 2020.

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