Anyone looking to pray following the death of Pope Francis on Monday can find their nearest parish using the Archdiocese of ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

His followers saw him as symbolizing the church's open arms. His critics saw him as bending timeless church doctrines.

During his groundbreaking papacy, Pope Francis inspired the masses as he challenged the traditions and standards of the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore McCarrick, a once-powerful Catholic cardinal who was defrocked ... scandal created a crisis of credibility for the church, primarily because there was evidence Vatican ...

MADISON - The former Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked amid a sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church ... These priests molested kids in Wisconsin and elsewhere.

For years, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has also played a pivotal role in settling lawsuits over the drawing of electoral maps, both for state legislative districts and for U.S. Congressional ...

Night - Cloudy with a 71% chance of precipitation. Winds E at 9 to 14 mph (14.5 to 22.5 kph). The overnight low will be 33 °F (0.6 °C). Cloudy with a high of 42 °F (5.6 °C) and a 81% chance of ...

Under Wisconsin law, religious groups that proselytize would qualify for an exemption — like Protestant churches — but Catholic churches, which do not proselytize nearly as much, might not.

The group is seeking to be exempt from the state's unemployment compensation program so it can join the Wisconsin Catholic Church’s private program, which they say would save them more money ...

Wisconsin exempts church-controlled organizations from unemployment tax if they are operated primarily for religious purposes. The Catholic Charities Bureau, though, has paid the tax since 1972.