The Associated Press

As the largest wildfire burning in the U.S. marches across the high alpine forests and grasslands of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, many in its path have pleaded with God for intervention in the form of rain and calm winds, and protection for their neighbors and beloved landscape.

Wynn Bruce, a 50-year-old climate activist and Buddhist from Boulder, Colorado, set himself on fire in front of the U.S. Supreme Court last week, prompting a national conversation about his motivation.

Pope Francis again canceled his daily meetings Tuesday because of acute knee pain that has greatly curtailed his mobility in recent months.

Pope Francis made key appointments in his newly reformed Vatican bureaucracy April 23,  naming new deputies for the doctrine office and confirming the highest-ranked woman in the Holy See as the No. 2 in the development office

A cardinal testified that he donated 125,000 euros ($140,000) of Vatican money to a Sardinian diocese for purely charitable reasons, rejecting Vatican prosecutors' claims that the money benefitted his brother who ran the charity.

Pope Francis has yet to publicly condemn Russia by name for its invasion of Ukraine or publicly appeal to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Some are not satisfied with the Vatican tradition of quiet diplomacy.

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, who leads the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., has tested positive for the coronavirus.

A Truth and Healing process at Red Cloud Indian School in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, seeks to address the past of the former Catholic school once bent on assimilating Indigenous children into the dominant white, English-speaking, Christian culture.

Plans are progressing for a possible meeting next year between Pope Francis and the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church.

A defrocked American priest accused of sexually abusing orphaned and disadvantaged young girls under his care in East Timor was found guilty Tuesday and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

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.