The Associated Press

According to a survey released Dec. 14 by the Pew Research Center, the group commonly known as the "nones" — the religiously unaffiliated — now constitute 29% of American adults. That's up from 23% in 2016 and 19% in 2011.

The Vatican’s fraud and embezzlement trial suffered another delay as the tribunal postponed any further decisions until prosecutors finish redoing their investigation of four of the original 10 defendants.

Pope Francis agreed to meet with the commission that published a ground-breaking report into clergy sexual abuse in the French Catholic Church.

 A consortium of Catholic women’s groups is calling on the Holy See to join the Council of Europe and to sign the European Convention on Human Rights.

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a challenge from parents in Maine who want to use a state tuition program to send their children to religious schools.

The new head of Hong Kong's Catholic diocese expressed hope Saturday that he could foster healing in a divided congregation and city.

New Jersey’s two-year window that made it easier for victims of child sexual abuse to file lawsuits is closing.

Pope Francis is arranging to transfer a number of migrants to Italy from the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus.

Pope Francis expressed pain and sorrow at the deaths and suffering of migrants crossing the English Channel.

Phil Saviano, a clergy sex abuse survivor and whistleblower who played a pivotal role in exposing decades of predatory assaults by Roman Catholic priests in the United States, has died. He was 69.

Defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is facing another sexual abuse lawsuit.

British politicians gathered Tuesday for a Mass to mourn the death of slain lawmaker David Amess, with Pope Francis sending a message calling for mourners to “combat evil with good.”

No matter how the current conservative-dominated Supreme Court decides pending high-profile abortion cases — perhaps weakening Roe v. Wade, perhaps gutting it completely — there will be no monolithic, nationwide change. Fractious state-by-state battles over abortion access will continue.

Germany's Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cologne held a service of penance for cases of sexual abuse by clergy, saying the ritual was not an absolution for the perpetrators but a "confession of guilt."

Lucía Giménez still suffers pain in her knees from the years she spent scrubbing floors in the men’s bathroom at the Opus Dei residence in Argentina’s capital for hours without pay.

Priest called for parishioners to arm themselves against warring drug gangs.

The Madison Catholic Diocese has instructed its 102 parishes not to host coronavirus vaccination clinics in their schools and churches.

Pope Francis decried societies which rush indifferently past the poor, often judging them instead of helping them.

Pope Francis urged political and economic leaders to show courage and long-range vision on how to combat global warming.

Pope Francis renewed his call for Europe to welcome and show solidarity with migrants.