The festivity of Our Lady of Perpetual Help promoted in Cali in June of 2023, with members of the Afro Pastoral Ministry of the Archdiocese of Cali, Colombia. (Credit: Afro Pastoral Ministry of Cali.) ...

One of the most pervasive myths about colonial Latin American society is that it was Catholic, full stop. It’s a familiar story: As history books tell it, the Europeans brought their religion to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ahead of the conclave to select a new pope for the Catholic Church, each cardinal took an oath of secrecy in Latin. NBC News’ ...

SÃO PAULO – Heads of Catholic TV stations from different parts of Latin America gathered in Brazil last week and founded the Latin American and Caribbean Audiovisual Media Alliance. The Alliance is ...

LATIN has been the official language of the Catholic Church. Papal documents are promulgated in Latin. Church documents, most especially laws, are binding in Latin. The Vatican’s official gazette is ...

Catholicism has lost many adherents to other faiths, and more recently to the ranks of the unchurched. In Rio state, it has already happened. Catholics make up 46% of the population, according to the ...

On the first Sunday of his papacy, Pope Leo XIV stood on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica and did something that shocked some Catholics -- he chanted the Marian prayer Regina Caeli in Latin.

Following Pope Francis’ decision to significantly limit the use of Roman Liturgy, most nonparochial churches in the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington will stop performing the Traditional Latin Mass ...