Roman Catholic Church

COMMENTARY Pope Francis has suggested the church can bless same-sex unions — a reconsideration of Catholic teaching that reflects gay marriage's rise in Latin America.

Roman Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez is the most important democratic resistance symbol left in Nicaragua. Will the Ortega dictatorship expel the Church to block him?

The Vatican on Friday will beatify Dr. José Gregorio Hernández, whose work for the needy is an inspiration to fellow Venezuelans during their humanitarian crisis.

COMMENTARY On the opening page of his guerrilla memoir "Fire from the Mountain," Nicaraguan revolutionary Omar Cabezas calls his birthplace "a ghost town”…

The surprise move is seen as a rebuke to Pope Francis, who is weighing whether to allow older, married men to be ordained in some South American countries, where a shortage of priests is acute.

COMMENTARYEven by the satanic standards of all the clerical sexual abuse cases the world has learned of, this one is especially evil.On Monday, two Roman…

McCarrick was a globe-trotting Washington power broker and one of the Vatican's highest officials. He faces multiple allegations of sexual abuse, misconduct and harassment.

Pope Francis and Imam Syed Rahman share a problem. They want to have it both ways when it comes to LGBT people.The Pope tells us to love gays and…

As of today, Cuba’s Roman Catholic Church has a new leader – a changing of the clerical guard that matters more on the communist island than it did in…

COMMENTARYWhen the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed gay marriage last summer, Miami’s Roman Catholic archbishop, Thomas Wenski, compared the ruling to the Dred…

COMMENTARYIt’s one of those photos that cries out for a thought bubble.During Pope Francis’ visit to Bolivia yesterday – the second stop on the Pope’s…

This Sunday marks one of the sadder remembrances on both the Latin American and Roman Catholic calendars: The 25th anniversary of the brutal military…