Pope Francis traveled to Romania May 31-June 2, 2019. Pope Francis expressed hope May 31 that the Catholic and Romanian Orthodox churches will work more closely together in the future.

Pope Francis will be welcomed by a flourishing Catholic Church in Romania. Robu underscored that "the Romanian Church gave 44 fidei donum priests, spread in many European dioceses, and there are a ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A longtime priest at St. Helena Church on Cleveland's West Side has pleaded guilty to stealing $176,000 from the Romanian Catholic institution, a prosecutor said.

Vatican City, Jan 11, 2019 / 03:53 am. The Vatican confirmed Friday that Pope Francis will travel to Romania to the cities of Bucharest, Iaşi, and Blaj, and to a Marian shrine in eastern ...

The Catholic Church “desires to contribute to the building up of society,” he said May 31, on the first of a three-day trip to the Romanian cities of Bucharest, Bacau, Sumuleu-Ciuc, and Blaj.

ROME — On Sunday in Blaj, Pope Francis will beatify seven Greek-Catholic bishops of Romania who were killed by the communist regime between 1950 and 1970. These martyrs “have given all to ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — When Pope John Paul II made history in Romania 20 years ago by becoming the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to visit a predominantly Orthodox nation since the ...

The Catholic Church in Romania also lived powerful moments of prayer and communion. In fact, at the request of the Romanian Episcopal Conference, Romania was consecrated at the shrine of Fatima ...

Romanian Greek Catholics called it “the kidnapped church” because another building was erected around it. It is the Greek Catholic Church in Ungheni, in the Mureș County (central Romania ...

MALACHI'S CHURCH until their own church was completed at 1367 W. 65th St. Dedicated in Oct. 1906, the building cost $6,500. The frame structure was remodeled in 1939, resurfaced in brick, and rebuilt ...

MIERCUREA CIUC, Romania — More than 35,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims congregated Saturday at an open-air shrine in Romania for a centuries-old procession that was canceled last year due to the ...

Commentator Andrei Codrescu notes the complicity of the Romanian Orthodox Church in both World War II and Communist-era wrongs. Now the church is giving big new construction projects to ...