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Thousands of priests from around the world have massed in Rome in one of the largest such gatherings ever in a major show of support for Pope ...

A math teacher was fired from an Iowa Catholic school because she joined an atheist website and noted online that she didn't believe in God. ...

The Vatican had praise Saturday for this week's announcement that scientists had created the world's first synthetic cell, calling it an "interesting result" that could help cure disease.

The Vatican on Monday will make its most detailed argument yet for why it is not liable for bishops who allowed priests to molest children in the U.S., The Associated Press has learned.

A crowd estimated by the Vatican at 150,000 filled St. Peter's Square on Sunday in a major show of support for Pope Benedict XVI over the clerical sex abuse scandal.

Seven years after the Episcopal Church caused an uproar by consecrating its first openly gay bishop, it's set to do the same thing again - only this time with a woman....

Pope Benedict said on Tuesday the crisis of sexual abuse of children by priests should make the Church acknowledge the "terrifying" truth that its greatest threat comes from "sin within the Church".

The Vatican says Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of a leading German bishop who is being probed for allegedly physically abusing minors and financial misconduct.

The Supreme Court has ruled that a white cross, erected as a war memorial and placed on national parkland in the California desert, does not violate the constitutional separation of church and state.

Pope Benedict XVI was "deeply affected" by a meeting with victims of abuse by Catholic clergy, he said Wednesday, in his first public comments on the scandal in more than a month.