While no specific names were disclosed, the possibility of a Mexican assuming the leadership of the Catholic Church would cause quite a stir, especially in Latin America, where Catholicism has ...

Masses were celebrated around the country March 23 as Catholics prayed for the victims of the attack, which claimed eight ...

"I call on the authorities to listen to victims," Auxiliary Bishop Francisco Acero Pérez of Mexico City said in his homily.

The Catholic Church in Mexico expressed its “profound indignation and grief” following the discovery of an organized crime ...

Maciel abused as many as 60 children, with a total of 33 priests or deacons acknowledged to have committed sexual assaults against minors since 1941 At least 175 children were sexually assaulted ...

Following the Feb. 25 decriminalization of abortion for up to 12 weeks of pregnancy in the Mexican state of Campeche ... be excommunicated from the Catholic Church. The abortion decriminalization ...

Last month, a dozen dogs attended mass at a Mexico City cathedral for the annual blessing of animals, a Catholic tradition. On this day, Mexican Catholic congregations and priests welcome pups ...