Pope meets senior Russian Orthodox official at Vatican
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis met July 11 with Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external church relations for the Moscow...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis met July 11 with Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external church relations for the Moscow...
Read More(OSV News) -- The Nicaraguan government closed the country's most prominent Catholic radio station as the Sandinista regime continues to persecute the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican has made public its 1974 decision denying the authenticity of Marian apparitions alleged to have occurred in Amsterdam...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis called on representatives from the world's religions to unite behind the defense of human dignity in an age that will...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church can only teach the faithful if it is an institution that listens, but that does not mean it should take to heart...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The working document for the October assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality has called for responses to how all the baptized...
Read More(OSV News) -- Russian forces have driven out all Greek and Roman Catholic clergy from the occupied areas of Ukraine, said the head of the Ukrainian Greek...
Read More(OSV News) -- A July 8 attack by Russia on a children's hospital and other civilian targets throughout Ukraine is "a sin that cries out to heaven for revenge,"...
Read MoreGAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (OSV News) -- The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem issued a strong condemnation after the Israeli military targeted a Catholic school...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, former nuncio to the United States, has been excommunicated after being found guilty of schism,...
Read MorePARIS (OSV News) -- As the commission discerning whether Father Marko Rupnik's mosaics stay or go from the facade of the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Public debate on end-of-life issues seems more widespread every time states and nations consider new laws dealing with bioethics...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The mosaics prominently featured in the Marian sanctuary in Lourdes, France, created by Father Marko Rupnik -- accused of abusing...
Read MoreBERLIN (OSV News) -- The Catholic Church in Germany continues to shrink, a new study has found. More than 400,000 people in the European country left the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While Jesus entrusted St. Peter with the keys to the kingdom more than two millennia ago, and his modern-day successor conferred...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said he truly hopes to celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in Turkey in 2025. "It...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Every Vatican office must be sensitive toward those harmed by abuse and should exercise "pastoral prudence" before deciding to display...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While Christians must treat addicts with care and comprehension, drug traffickers who push their products on the vulnerable are "murderers"...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Pope Francis became the first leader of the Catholic Church to address a Group of Seven summit, a gathering of leaders from...
Read More(OSV News) -- The first bishop of a special diocese in Great Britain created for Catholics of the Anglican tradition has welcomed the pope's show of support...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Despite tensions with Pope Francis which have sometimes boiled over into public view, Archbishop Georg Gänswein, Pope Benedict...
Read MorePARIS (OSV News) -- The decision whether to keep the mosaics of Father Marko Rupnik on the facade of Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in France's most...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said that Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati "will be a saint soon." Known as "the Man of the Eight Beatitudes," he was...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- There are no compromises when it comes to human life, Pope Francis said. "Go forward with courage despite every adversity," he said...
Read MoreJERUSALEM (OSV News) -- The discovery of a Byzantine-period church in the northern Negev, with wall art displaying ships, opens a window to the world of...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Institute for the Works of Religion, commonly known as the Vatican bank, reported a net income of 30.6 million euros (about $32.8...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith has begun an extrajudicial penal trial to determine if Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Faith and science can go hand in hand as long as science is put at the service of humanity and not used to hurt or extinguish human...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- There is a prayer for every state of mind and spiritual need in the Book of Psalms, Pope Francis said. "There are many psalms that...
Read More(OSV News) -- A Spanish Jesuit has been discovered to have documented his abuse of hundreds of Indigenous girls while serving as a missionary in rural...
Read More(OSV News) -- Catholic Church representatives have welcomed a ruling by Europe's top human rights court that countries have no obligation to allow physician-assisted...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Condemning the killing of Christians in Congo, Pope Francis said the sacrifices of modern martyrs are seeds that grow into examples...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis met individually with several world leaders during the Group of Seven summit in southern Italy, including with U.S....
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