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New Roman Catholic parish church of St. Gregory the Great, built in the early 1960s to replace the nearby neo-Romanesque predecessor that had to be demolished due to mine damage.

St. Gummarus, 1900-1902, Pierre Cuypers (1827 - 1921). Construction led by Joseph Cuypers (1861 - 1949) and Jan Stuyt (1868 - 1934) who radically changed the preliminary design from 1899. Three-aisled basilica with a centralising floor plan, which widens towards the transept through the addition of chapels. Heavy round crossing tower, flanked by square corner turrets. Three-part windows, rectangular pillars and arches. Net vaults over the main naves. The structural parts in the interior are executed as fair-work in yellow brick, the wall surfaces are plastered. Restored after severe war damage 1949-1950. Bell frame with clock by Gebr. Van Bergen, Midwolda, station clock from 's Hertogenbosch, ±1920, diam. 33 cm.

Three-aisled church with basilica layout and front tower, built in 1876 in neo-Romanesque style to a design by P. Soffers. In the lateral extensions with the same height as the aisles, double transept-like spaces are included. On either side of the choir, the aisles are terminated by cross-placed chapels.

Early December 1903, the former Roman Catholic church of St. Henricus was consecrated. The church and rectory were built at the point where the Scholtenskanaal flows into the Van Echtenskanaal. Because the foundation and the floor showed defects, a new church was built on the Stellingstraat in 1964. When the new St. Henricuskerk was put into use, the organ from the old church was moved to the new one. It was not a success. The organ was clearly too small for the much larger church. In April 2005, a second organ was placed in the St. Henricuskerk. It came from the (closed as a Roman Catholic church) Christus Koningkerk in The Hague. The organ was officially put into use on 18 December 2005. (51-04/54-05/55-06)

The rectory of the HH Hieronymus and Antonius was established on 4 April 1944. LCH Obers was appointed pastor, later succeeded by PJ Deckers. Architect Franssen had already made a sketch plan for the construction of a church with a rectory at the end of 1944. The church was put out to tender in May 1948. The lowest bidder was the firm Schroën en Zonen in Roermond. The first stone was laid on 5 September 1948. A request from pastor Deckers in November 1948 to also immediately build the tower, baptismal chapel, etc. in view of the progress of the work was not honored. The blessing took place on 10 April 1949. The tower was never built. The fact that the church remained unfinished is probably the reason that it was never consecrated.

Extraordinarily important neo-Gothic church, one of the two (together with the St. Lambertuskerk in Rotterdam-Kralingen) remaining Roman Catholic neo-Gothic churches in 2023, which are actively used as church buildings in Rotterdam. Extension with tower and nave 1904-1905, AAJ Margry and JM Snickers. In 2002, this beautiful church was designated a national monument. Architecturally, this church is extra interesting because of the similarity, in terms of structure of the front facade, with a main tower in the middle and two side towers on either side, with the Roman Catholic St. Bonifatiuskerk in Zaandam; such neo-Gothic "westworks" do not occur elsewhere in the Netherlands. Historically, this church is extremely interesting in terms of name, because it is the only St. Hildegardiskerk in the Netherlands. Hildegardis was / is one of the first female saints in the Roman Catholic Church.

The first Catholic church was a clandestine church in the hamlet of Teckop, dating from around 1645. In 1854-1855 a new church was built on the Mijzijde in Kanis. (The old clandestine church was subsequently demolished in 1857).

Single-nave neo-Romanesque hall church with wooden facade tower. Renovated in 1946.

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Hubertus dates from 1906. The church replaced a water board church from 1835. The church is a three-aisled neo-Gothic pseudo-basilica designed by Caspar Franssen (1860-1932). During the Second World War, the church served as a shelter for residents of Nijmegen, who were left homeless by the bombing of 1944. Shortly afterwards, the church itself suffered damage from shelling. The church was restored after the war. The tower was not built until 1955. In the church is a memorial window from 1948, made by R. Smeets. This church is listed as a Municipal Monument of the Netherlands.

In 1933 the parish was founded and separated from the parish of Beek. That year the rectory was also built to the design of architect Stephan Dings from Beek. In the period 1936-1937 the church was built to the design of architect Alphons Boosten from Maastricht. The church was designed inspired by the façade of the Romanesque Basilica of Our Lady in Maastricht and was built in a romantic-modernist style. The church is considered one of the most important exponents of the so-called Limburg Reveil, a regional art movement from the Interbellum that often found its inspiration in a self-confident, personal and romantic approach to its own native region. Artists who contributed to the creation of the church building are Henri Jonas, Charles Eyck, Joep Nicolas, Charles Vos, Gisèle Waterschoot van der Gracht, Jacques Verheyen, Jef Scheffers, Yvonne Trypels and Eugène Quanjel.