Martin Scorsese is on a post-Cannes tour of Italy where over the weekend the director, known for having a religious bent, met with Pope Francis and announced that he will make a film about Jesus. &…

The importance of religion in the lives of Americans is on the decline. That's according to a new report from the Public Religion Research Institute.

Alleged church sexual abuse of more than 600 children under the Baltimore Catholic Church detailed in new report from Maryland Attorney General.

The country’s ruling party wants to convert reports that the pontiff turned a blind eye toward child abuse into electoral rocket fuel.

A dozen Catholic schools citywide are still feeling the consequences from the COVID pandemic. The issues have gotten so severe it's causing them to shut down by the end of the school year. Some other schools are only staying open because they're merging with others. "I'm sad," said 5th grader Alexa Garcia.

The late Polish pope John Paul II knew about child abuse in Poland's Catholic church years before becoming pontiff and helped cover it up, private broadcaster TVN reported Sunday.

Case is latest in series where church seeks to capitalise on landmark ruling that a priest’s death meant church could not receive a fair trial

Meeting a group of Indigenous delegates attending the 6th Global Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples Forum, Pope Francis calls for the protection of their rights and highlights the crucial role of indigenous peoples in the fight against climate change.

Does part of the process of determining that a Pope has died call for him to be tapped on the forehead with a silver hammer?

In the United States, admirers of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI remembered him warmly for his theological prowess and devotion to traditional doctrine. However, some U.S. Catholics, on learning of his death Saturday , recalled him as an obstacle to progress in combating clergy sex abuse and expanding the role of women in the church.

Former Pope Benedict XVI has died, aged 95, almost a decade after he stood down because of ailing health. He led the Catholic Church for fewer than eight years until, in 2013, he became the first Pope to resign since Gregory XII in 1415. Benedict spent his final years at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery within the walls of the Vatican where he passed away at 09:34 (08:34 GMT) on Saturday.

Benedict, who has died at his Vatican residence, became the first pope to resign for 600 years in 2013.

His comments at Christmas Eve Mass in the Vatican follow previous remarks about the war in Ukraine.

Religion News Service columnist Mark Silk on the differing stances taken by the Catholic Church and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the Respect for Marriage Act.

Suppose Catholic head Pope Francis were to return to the days of no meat in Catholic churches across the globe. In that case, The change could reduce millions of metric tonnes in greenhouse gases every year to a new study by the University of Cambridge.

Pope Francis says he has taken it on himself to rid the Catholic Church of sexual abuse, telling CNN's partner channel CNN Portugal that he was "responsible that it doesn't happen anymore."

Across the United States, young adults are becoming less religious.

Across the United States, young adults are becoming less religious.

Pope Francis is scheduled to land in Canada on Sunday on what he has called a "pilgrimage of penance" to apologize for the abuse indigenous children endured at hands of largely Catholic-run residential schools.

A bishop in Worcester, Massachusetts, has said an area middle school can no longer call itself Catholic because it flew pride and Black Lives Matter flags on its campus after being told to take them down. In a decree, Bishop Robert J. McManus said the Nativity School is supporting movements that are "inconsistent with Catholic teaching."