Kentucky Roman Catholic priest Jim Sichko visits the Vatican often as one of Pope Francis' missionaries of mercy and he often brings the pontiff gifts.

Archbishop of Detroit Allen Vigneron has led the Detroit archdiocese since 2009. Pope Francis appointed Wednesday morning a new leader of the Catholic Church in metro Detroit, naming Bishop Edward J.

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Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first openly Black priest.

He saw an opportunity to turn a signature Kentucky product, and his access to Pope Francis as a papal missionary of mercy, into a way to help those in need by auctioning off bourbon bottles signed by the pope.

Pope Francis has accepted Archbishop Dennis Schnurr's resignation and named Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Robert G. Casey as his replacement

Father Edward Beck joins Abby Phillip’s panel to discuss the Pope’s letter to bishops admonishing the Trump immigration policy. Father Beck says in response to Border Czar Tom Homan’s comments that the Pope is doing his job and speaking out to protect vulnerable people.

During the 1960s, Sister Thea Bowman became an integral part in the civil rights movement. It is because of her work in civil rights that the Diocese of Jackson opened a cause for canonization in 2018.

Francis took the remarkable step of addressing the U.S. migrant crackdown in a letter to the bishops of the United States, who have criticized the expulsions as harming the most vulnerable. History's first Latin American pope has long made caring for migrants a priority of his pontificate,

Pope Francis, who is spending his fifth day in hospital for what doctors described as a "complex" respiratory infection, will not take part in this weekend's Holy Year events, the Vatican said on Tuesday.