By PETER SMITH Associated Press When the Episcopal Church recently announced cuts to its national staff, it was the latest in a long-running cycle among historic U.S. Protestant denominations — declines in members leading to declines in funding and thus in staff. And it wasn’t ...

ROME (AP) — The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death. “A pope dies, they make another,” goes one, suggesting how life goes on. “Every death of a pope …” starts another, indicating a ...

Father Ryan Ford will lead a Men’s Day of Reflection on Saturday, March 1 at St. Michael Catholic Church in Marquette. The event is free to all men across the Catholic Diocese of Marquette, as it is funded by a Diocesan Mission Grant and St. Michael Parish. Fr. Ryan, the Vicar for ...

(AP) — The sense of Catholic unity didn’t last long. Less than a week after Vice President JD Vance shared the inauguration stage with a senior Catholic cardinal, Vance picked a fight with the top American leaders of his church. The new vice president, a Catholic convert, accused the U.S. ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has long urged couples to marry and have babies rather than dogs. And he has long championed the rights of workers and held up labor itself as the foundation of human dignity. So it has come as something of a surprise to many in the Holy See that the Vatican bank ...

HAIFA, Israel (AP) — Naftali Furst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old. SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where he was crammed in with his mother, father, brother, and more than 80 others. He ...