President Donald Trump’s appeal to religious conservatives is a cornerstone of his political identity. But Joe Biden is a different kind of foe than Trump has faced before: one who makes faith a central part…

Boy Scouts of America has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to protect the organization and its multibillion-dollar assets from seizure amid hundreds of sexual abuse lawsuits. A once-venerable institution, credited by generations of business and…

The bishops of Kansas’ four Catholic dioceses announced last week they would not support the expansion of Medicaid unless the Kansas Constitution were amended to ban abortion.  The respective bishops of the dioceses in Dodge…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican formally opened debate Monday on letting married men be ordained as priests in remote parts of the Amazon where priests are so few that Catholics can go weeks or…

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis opened a landmark sex abuse prevention summit today by warning senior Catholic figures that the faithful are demanding concrete action against predator priests and not just words of condemnation.…