ROME (AP) — Pope Francis urged religious orders on Monday to work and pray harder for new priests and nuns to join, as he acknowledged the congregations’ futures are at risk with the numbers of men ...

Pope Francis admitted Tuesday that Catholic priests and bishops had sexually abused nuns, the latest scandal to rock the church. Pope Francis, shown here accepting a gift from an Arab journalist ...

Octogenarian Sisters Rita, Regina and Bernadette went back to their old convent with local support, and an Instagram ...

Lawyer and researcher Martha Patricia Molina has reported that the dictatorship in Nicaragua of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, has deported a group of foreign ...

ST LOUIS — Sixty people allege in new lawsuits filed in Missouri that they were abused as children by dozens of Catholic priests, nuns and others, and the man who now leads the Archdiocese of Omaha, ...

Whack! Whack! Whack! That was the rhythm of order in the early 1960s at the parochial school I went to as a child. Often it was “whack” with a ruler, the contrapuntal of a teacher’s index finger ...

Priests and nuns in Indonesia’s Christian-majority East Nusa Tenggara province joined rights activists to protest the inauguration of a Catholic lawmaker accused of human trafficking. The inauguration ...

Korean horror seems to be back full throttle. After Exhuma sent chills across its audience, another movie ready to scare you ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — As Mayor Brandon Johnson was defending Chicago’s sanctuary city status at a congressional hearing focused on immigration policies, a group of priests, nuns and lay leaders were ...