ROME (AP) — Parishoners gathered inside St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Cleveland’s Tremont neighborhood to mark the start of Lent by receiving ashes on Ash Wednesday. Deacon Chris ...

The leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is recovering from double pneumonia at Rome’s Gemelli hospital.

Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions ...

Following that of the Pope, the title of cardinal is the highest dignity in the Catholic Church ... appointed from within the Roman Curia are made Cardinal Deacons. However, after having been ...

It took centuries for the Roman Catholic Church to develop an electoral ... equal representation among cardinal-priests, cardinal-deacons and cardinal-bishops – would become the pope’s ...

As he enters his 13th year as pope, Francis stands tall as the moral authority in today’s world, a voice pleading for humanity, peace and respect for the dignity of all people.

Father’s Day weekend in June 2024 was especially joyful, and especially fitting, for The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington ... People are drawn to something that’s authentic.” Deacon Don ...

In the midst of that, he became a Roman Catholic priest. “I know what war is ... He teaches Sunday School and is studying to be an Episcopal deacon. “We all have in some way a job or a mission to do ...