Pilgrims pause for prayer as the Walk with Mary procession in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 13 arrived at the Basilica of the ...

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

Cuba is facing a shortage of religious vocations to the point that the country is losing almost one women’s religious ...

Eighty years later, American Catholic bishops visited Japan to demand nuclear disarmament—and called for political leaders to ...

Bishop Mark O'Connell told people wounded by the church: "Let me gently show you Jesus who loves you with an everlasting love. His light is never overcome by darkness, and He is your Messiah as truly ...

As they faced difficult challenges that many might consider hopeless both in their native country and in their adopted ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

Cardinal Pizzaballa is not particularly confident in current leadership on either side of the conflict. But he is inspired by ...

In fact, the Wikimedia Foundation announced Dec. 2 that "Deaths in 2025" -- an entry that includes Pope Francis -- was their ...

Rachel Mastrogiacomo was raped by a Catholic priest who confessed and pleaded guilty. Cardinal Robert McElroy covered it up.

Cardinal Baltazar Porras has been denied permission to leave Venezuela and had his passport confiscated as the country's embattled dictatorship steps up harassment of church leaders and dissident ...

Servant of God Cardinal François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận spent 12 years in prison, nine in solitary confinement.