The Associated Press

The April 15 fire at Notre Dame cathedral has stopped the Paris cathedral from celebrating Midnight Mass this year, for the first time in over two centuries.

President Donald Trump is blasting a prominent Christian magazine that published an editorial arguing that he should be removed from office.

A handful of people who have gone public as survivors of Catholic clergy sexual abuse in Japan, where values of conformity and harmony have resulted in a strong code of silence.

Tennessee won't stop resettling refugees, Republican Gov. Bill Lee said December 18, rejecting the option offered to states by President Donald Trump's administration.

The Supreme Court said December 18 it will consider expanding protections for churches against job-discrimination claims.

The Roman Catholic bishop of Erie has announced the opening of the canonization process for Gertrude Barber, founder of what is now called the Barber National Institute for adults and children with disabilities.

Protests spread December 17 across India against a new law that provides a path to citizenship for non-Muslims entering illegally from several neighboring countries, with angry demonstrators clashing with police.

Assailants attacked several protest camps in north and south Lebanon early Dec. 17, according to state-run media, demolishing tents and burning down others as anger boiled over in the capital following a video deemed offensive to the country's Shiites.

The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City said December 16 it has substantiated an allegation of child sexual abuse against another priest.

For decades, the people of Bethlehem have watched tour buses drive up to the Church of the Nativity, disgorge their passengers for a few hours at the traditional birthplace of Jesus, and then return to Israel.

Fifteen states have revised their laws in the past two years extending or suspending statute of limitations to allow child sex abuse claims stretching back decades, unleashing potentially thousands of new lawsuits.

Half of California's Catholic dioceses expect to be subpoenaed by the state attorney general as part of an investigation into whether they have properly handled allegations of sexual abuse by priests, a church spokesman said Dec. 10.

The mayor of Jersey City said Dec. 11 it's clear that the gunmen in a furious shooting that left six people dead targeted a Jewish market.

President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to end more than two years of martial law in the southern Philippines after government forces weakened Islamic militant groups there with the capture and killing of their leaders, his spokesman said Tuesday.

A former New York Giants team chaplain who faced sexual abuse allegations nearly 20 years ago has been sued by one of the accusers.

The church's clergy sex abuse crisis has had a ripple effect on many honorable priests: heavier workloads, increased isolation as multi-priest parishes grow scarce and an erosion of public support.

The Catholic diocese of Rochester, N.Y., confirms it made the request for further investigations that prompted the Vatican to take the rare step of delaying Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s journey to sainthood.

Finger pointing and voice hoarse, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday delivered a broadside to a reporter that might well apply to all of impeachment-era Washington: “Don't mess with me."

A man claims in a lawsuit filed under a recently enacted New Jersey law that he told Pope John Paul II in 1988 about being sexually abused as a child by the priest who would become Cardinal Theodore McCarrick but that the Vatican did nothing — claims he also made in a lawsuit this summer in New York.

A former priest has sued the Archdiocese of St. Louis, alleging it libeled and slandered him by including him on a list of clerics credibly accused of abusing children.