One of the 133 cardinals voting to decide who becomes the next pope of the Catholic Church has ties to western Iowa. U.S Cardinal Daniel DiNardo prepares to leave the Pontifical North American ...

Despite this, women can still be nuns, altar servers, lectors and hold other leadership positions in the Catholic Church. If you believe the legend of Pope Joan, then yes, there has been a Popess.

With 133 Catholic cardinals due to start their conclave ... elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday, taking the name Leo XIV and becoming the first ...

At stake is the direction of the Catholic Church, a 2,000-year-old institution with huge global influence but which is battling to adapt to the modern world and recover its reputation after the ...

As the Catholic Church prepares to turn a new chapter following the death of Pope Francis, Kenya’s John Cardinal Njue is among the cardinal electors cleared to participate in the historic Conclave ...

Get ready, Eric Church fans! The Chief is coming back to Iowa! 2025 is setting up to be a big year in the career of country star Eric Church. We have new music coming in the form of a new album called ...

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File) TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Members of New Jersey’s Supreme Court sounded skeptical at times Monday about the effort of a Catholic diocese to stop ... seat a grand jury to ...

In a ceremony earlier this month, Murray Chatlain walked into St. Mary's Cathedral to be ordained the Roman Catholic Church's eighth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Winnipeg. Just before ...

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to lead the Catholic church in 2013, he chose the papal name Francis, after the 13th-century figure St. Francis of Assisi, known as the patron saint of ...

But Africa’s share of the Catholic population is growing. The continent is now home to 20 percent of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, as the church struggles to hold on to followers in ...

The Supreme Court is deciding whether the Catholic Church can run the nation’s first religious charter school. The dioceses say Oklahoma’s ban on using public funds to support sectarian ...

Credit: Pietro espasian Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 There have been twelve Greek Popes in the history of the papacy, the Pope being the head of the Catholic Church, with Saint Peter considered to ...