The men are training to become Catholic priests. While probably only a fraction of them will go on to be ordained, Indonesia -- the world's largest Muslim-majority country -- is producing so many ...

A Church official has decried police in central India announcing a cash reward to those helping to arrest two Catholic priests who evaded police after they were named in a case of charging excess ...

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone responded Friday to what he heard in hours of testimony this week in bankruptcy court from survivors of Catholic clergy abuse. More than a year into ...

Flying back to Rome from a lengthy trip to Asia, Pope Francis criticized both U.S. presidential candidates for what he called ...

a deeply Christian region — but one that has played a little-known role in the clergy abuse scandal that has stained the Roman Catholic Church. Over several decades, at least 10 priests and ...

So the whole Catholic Mass thing ... Across the fourteeners, souls have been caught off-guard by the clergy. “It’s always funny when we get to the top of a mountain,” said Nepil, who ...

Northern secretary Douglas Hurd faced sharp criticism during a dinner with Catholic priests in the mid-1980s, who roundly condemned the behaviour of the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) and the Royal ...

adding that some members are dressed as Catholic priests and hold liturgies similar to the Mass. “Very many people are following this group,” he lamented. “We are very careful as bishops to ...

The Catholic Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, and five of its priests whose legal status in the United States expires as soon as next spring, have now sued the federal agencies overseeing immigration.

In a dating culture that consists of swiping through photos of potential dates on a smartphone, one Catholic dating app is working to create a space where individuals can create genuine ...

He never mastered Italian. But families like his had proved generous. His father built the first freestanding Catholic church since the Reformation at Lulworth; had given the house and land for ...

(RNS) — Physicians and members of the clergy approach healing in different ways. Physicians treat bodies, which means taking vital signs, making diagnoses based on empirical evidence and ...