Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Pope Francis opened the first of five Holy Doors, signifying spiritual portals, on Christmas Eve ...

Each year, hordes of sinners and saints flock to Brazil to boogie down in the streets during Carnaval, the Roman Catholic ritual marking the start of Lent. As a sort of farewell to the flesh, revelers ...

MAPLE LAKE, Minn. -- The ancient Roman Catholic ritual in which someone continuously adores the wafer at the heart of the Catholic Mass, is making a comeback in St. Timothy's Catholic Church here, and ...

They stuck closely to traditional Roman Catholic ritual. But as they raised their arms in blessing, the five men revealed unmistakable proof of defiance: All wore wedding bands. These men who still ...

English-speaking Roman Catholics who have regularly attended Mass for years found themselves in an unfamiliar position Sunday, needing printed cards or sheets of paper to follow along with a ritual ...

THE African Catholics who welcomed Pope Paul to their continent last week are among the newest and the oldest Christians in the world. In Egypt, Alexandria had a colony of Christians at the time of ...