ROME — A Vatican appeals court on Tuesday convicted a priest of corrupting a minor when he served as an altar boy for the ... and spiritual center of the Roman Catholic Church.

For centuries, leaders of the Roman Catholic Church have been chosen at the Vatican ... each cardinal -- in order of seniority -- walks to an altar to ceremoniously place his folded ballot into ...

NEW ORLEANS — Authorities have expanded an investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans ... sexually assaulting a then-altar boy in the 1970s.

At the risk of stating the obvious, it is clear that the Roman Catholic Church (or at least ... Above every Greek Orthodox church’s altar, Theotokos, or Mary the Mother of Jesus, symbolically ...

under Covid rules Pope Francis has formally changed the law in the Roman Catholic Church, allowing women to administer communion and serve at the altar. But the ordained priesthood will still be ...

In the Roman ... Catholic culture. Architectural design, for example, is often felt to signal an Ancient or a Modern bias in both doctrine and praxis. So is artistic style. The shape of the church ...

2022 6:01 a.m. Deacon Christopher James Pujol stood near the fifth row of pews from the back at Mount St. Peter Roman Catholic Church on Monday morning. He was replaying the memory of him as a 7 ...

Anne Tropeano Anne Tropeano campaigns to 'expand the symbol of the Roman Catholic ... with their altar representatives. There is an opportunity in the current state of the Church, says the ...

But is the Buddhist religion, which prevails in China, much more foreign to our customs and our modes of thinking and believing than the Roman Catholic religion is? There are, in fact, many ...

Celebrating the relic was an all-day event. About 650 people attended the mass earlier in the day while nearly 400 visited ...

I wish he could be here for this, because my grandfather was a true believer in the Roman Catholic ... St. Thomas More Catholic Church − a beautiful parish where I served as altar boy for ...