Nuns sexually assaulted by priests are one of the last Catholic taboos, but with reports of abuse rising, it is a scandal ...

Down at the Casa Santa Marta, the Vatican residence/B&B, they are almost already. Regular and passing residents have been ...

Outside of the church, Ireland has seen societal change to traditional attitudes, in the form of the thirty-fourth amendment, ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

The papal smoke signals are ready. Vatican workers on Friday hoisted a chimney on to the roof of the Sistine Chapel, which ...

A fire that destroyed a Catholic church in Co Donegal was not started deliberately, gardaí have confirmed. A fire destroyed ...

The unprecedented number of 133 cardinal electors surpasses all previous papal conclaves, breaking the previous record of 115 ...

Hollywood and the media love intrigue. And the interregnum in the Catholic Church provides much fodder for an institution ...

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 ...

Primary school teachers want a school system that is "inclusive, equitable and reflective of the diversity of our pupils", ...

While there are those who want to back away from Francis' outreach there is one unalterable fact: When the world's Catholic ...