Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory — where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...

Harlee M. Hansen, age 19, left this earthly life on Sunday, January 12, 2025 at Republic County Hospital, Belleville, KS. She was born on December 6, 2005 in Belleville, KS to Brad & Tara L.

(Vatican News via CBCP News) Pope Francis has marked another milestone in his pontificate by appointing, for the first time in the history of the Catholic Church, a woman to head a Vatican dicastery.

The Catholic Church spent over $1 billion to cover costs related to clergy sexual abuse in the past 50 years, and is likely to spend more on the hundreds of still unsettled claims. According to a ...