NEW YORK — Pope Francis’ call Wednesday for a church of “open doors” that welcomes divorced Catholics prompted speculation over whether he was signaling support for easing the ban on Communion for ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church's process for annulling marriages Tuesday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and ...

Kendra Beigel was 14 years old when her family life took a turn for the worse. In her small-town Minnesota home, she was used to her parents arguing, but her family situation further disintegrated ...

Stepping into a dispute over religious education, a state appeals court rules that the child of divorced parents could not be enrolled in a Catholic high school over one parent's protest without ...

Five months after pledging publicly to put his private life in order, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy announced last week that he would marry Victoria Reggie, the 38-year-old daughter of old family friends ...