Archbishop Paul Stagg Coakley, elected this week as the new president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, ...

The Catholic Diocese of Alexandria, Louisiana, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday, Oct. 31, making it the ...

Across the centuries, Church crypts — from Roman catacombs to American cathedrals — testify that death is not the end but the ...

Lawyers behind a record $4 billion sex abuse settlement with Los Angeles County have brought in a second mediator to oversee potential fraud after an article in the Los Angeles Times last month ...

Now it is a venue space. When I walked into the cathedral in Reims, France, several decades ago, it was still serving the ...

The rector of St. Luke’s/SanLucas Episcopal Church in Long Beach was elected the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of ...

A man was shot in the elbow, and a deputy U.S. Marshal was hit in the hand by a ricochet bullet during an immigration enforcement operation in Los Angeles on the morning of Oct. 21, the Department of ...

The Oct. 31 filing came a day after hundreds of clergy abuse victims voted to approve a $230 million bankruptcy agreement ...

Autumn is coming to Southern California, where crowds of visitors normally would have been heading to arts festivals and ...

A judge has awarded $1.89 million to a man who sued Archdiocese of Los Angeles and St. Paul the Apostle Church, alleging he was wrongfully fired as the church’s facilities manager for complaining ...