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OLEAN — Close to half of the Catholic churches in the area — including a landmark in North Olean — are on the recommended closure list, Diocese of Buf...

OLEAN — BasilicaFEST, celebrated every June by parishioners at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels, continued through the weekend with lots of musi...

ALBANY (TNS) — Last week, Gov. Kathy Hochul met with Pope Francis and sang his praises, calling him an inspiration and urging that we listen to his me...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — King James I of England gets most of the credit for turning the Bible into an all-time bestseller, but remember it was King Henry ...

Parishioners of St. Andrews Catholic Church in Fort Worth, Texas, know that the Rev. Jim Gigliotti does not water down Catholic teaching for the sake ...

A new report finds the Catholic Church has spent more than $10 million in recent years to try to prevent victims of clergy sexual abuse from suing, in...

(TNS) Pope Francis stands accused of putting his protective wing around a known abuser. He has chosen to neither confirm nor deny the charges. That is...

The great tragedy and shame of the Catholic Church is how the bishops and cardinals moved priests from parish to parish — or looked the other way — wh...

As a practicing Catholic I was very disturbed by the reporting of a Catholic priest, who served locally, confessing his guilt in committing sexual abu...

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This story first appeared in the Times Herald's Outlook Edition on March 31.) ST. BONAVENTURE — Catholicism isn’t the only religion st...