One of Francis’ lasting reforms will be his reshaping of the papacy to embrace simplicity and humility. In his new ...

The burglar broke into St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church at 13th and Ludlow Streets by smashing through a stained-glass window and stole a golden crown, police said.

Police are working with surveillance images to help them identify the man who stole a golden, jeweled crown from a church in Center City Philadelphia.

Democratic New York Sen. Chuck Schumer honored 100-year-old Holocaust survivor living on Long Island with Senate recognition, ...

President Joe Biden awarded Pope Francis the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, recognizing him as a recipient ...

In the early 1970s, rape had reached epidemic proportions in Chicago, with an estimated 16,000 people were sexually assaulted in the metroplitan area. But less than a tenth of the cases were ever ...

Eagles punter Braden Mann wants to be a strength and conditioning coach, so mentoring a Philadelphia teenager in the gym was only natural.

For the 250 or so faithful at Clearview Mennonite Church in Rapho Township, worship today looks much like it did centuries ...

Biden, who is only the second Catholic president in U.S. history, spoke with the Pope by phone on Saturday to tell him he was ...

A new tour of the Vatican Gardens at the pope’s summer palace in Castel Gandolfo is opening in spring 2025 for jubilee ...

Among the thousands of buildings destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires were a mosque, a synagogue, a Catholic parish and a ...

A new document by the Italian bishops’ conference states that being openly gay no longer bars candidates from discerning the ...