U.S.-born priest to lead Vatican body overseeing selection of world's bishops
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has chosen Chicago-born Bishop Robert F. Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, to succeed Canadian Cardinal Ouellet as prefect...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has chosen Chicago-born Bishop Robert F. Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, to succeed Canadian Cardinal Ouellet as prefect...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As the Knights of Malta move toward re-establishing their normal means of governance under a papally-ordered new constitution, Pope...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The "spiral of death" that has materialized in the Holy Land in recent days threatens the little remaining trust that exists between...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The principal task of the continental assemblies and the assemblies of the Synod of Bishops in 2023 and 2024 is to learn and strengthen...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis reaffirmed that homosexuality is not a crime, and that any sexual act outside of marriage is a sin, in a written response...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians must combat the prevalent culture of wastefulness by becoming poor in spirit, Pope Francis said. Before praying the Angelus...
Read More(OSV News) -- Four clergymen, two seminarians and a diocesan journalist were convicted in Nicaragua on charges of conspiracy to undermine national integrity...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Marriage is not a ceremony, a social event, a mere formality or an abstract ideal, Pope Francis said. Marriage, according to Christian...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The religious-order brothers, sisters and priests and the hermits, monks and consecrated virgins who serve God and the Catholic Church...
Read MoreROME (OSV News) -- Pope Benedict XVI's biographer revealed that the late pontiff for years suffered from insomnia and exhaustion, which ultimately led...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Ukraine's religious leaders asked Pope Francis to visit Kyiv, said Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, the head of the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Considered one of Caravaggio's best masterpieces, "The Entombment of Christ" was covetingly confiscated by the French for its newly...
Read More(OSV News) -- A Moroccan national is under arrest after a horrific attack in several Catholic churches in the southern Spanish city of Algeciras, killing...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The world's religious traditions and their followers are called to offer wisdom to the world and to "infuse it with a spirit of warmth,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Public criticism by cardinals and bishops is annoying -- "like a rash that bothers you a bit," Pope Francis said -- but differences...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As war ravages Ukraine, the country cannot be divided among religious confessions but must be united behind "mother Ukraine," Pope...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Conflict and division hurt the mission of the Knights of Malta, and craving for power creates distance from Christ, Pope Francis...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Having come to know Jesus through the Scriptures and in the Eucharist, Catholics are called to share with others the hope and joy...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians must not "put pressure on others" to convert or induce in them "feelings of guilt," but take a weight off their shoulders...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Germany's bishops do not have the authority to establish a permanent decision-making body of bishops and laypeople that top Vatican...
Read More(OSV News) -- Peru’s bishops pleaded for peace as violent protests against the country’s current president and legislature have claimed the lives of...
Read More(OSV News) -- The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church has warned against moves by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's government to outlaw Orthodox communities...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The media and the field of communications need to exercise more kindness and share the truth with charity, Pope Francis said."Kindness...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis did not need to launch listening sessions for the Synod of Bishops for people to discover there are tensions in the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Word of God, which heals and raises people up, is meant for everyone, Pope Francis said. Jesus "wants to reach those far away,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Lengthy, abstract homilies are "a disaster," so preaching should be limited to 10 minutes, Pope Francis said. Speaking off the cuff...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As the Biden administration and state governments look at ways to expand or restrict access to abortion after the U.S. Supreme Court's...
Read MoreAMMAN, Jordan (OSV News) -- An ecumenical delegation of bishops from 11 countries participated in the annual pilgrimage of the Holy Land Coordination,...
Read MoreATCHISON, Kansas (OSV News) -- As Psalm 19 says, day in and day out, "the heavens declare the glory of God." But every now and then -- or sometimes every...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' fifth trip to the African continent will highlight gestures of peace and reconciliation, consoling the victims of violence...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians must develop a pastoral heart to care for those who have not heard the Gospel or who have left the fold, Pope Francis...
Read More(OSV News) -- Catholic aid organizations are warning that increasing attacks by Russian missiles are preventing supply access to Ukraine, after 44 civilians,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis asked Cubans "to make present in their hearts" the actions and words of St. John Paul II during his visit to their nation...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Health care is not a luxury, it is a right that belongs to everyone, Pope Francis told health care workers. "A world that rejects...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- No physical limitation or setback can diminish the value of any human being because each person is a unique and beloved child of...
Read MoreNAIROBI, Kenya (OSV News) -- Deadly violence hit Christians in Africa Jan. 15, with a Catholic priest in northern Nigeria burned to death and as many as...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The call to faith in Jesus always is a call to service and mission, Pope Francis told seminarians, priests and staff of the Pontifical...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- St. John the Baptist is a model for Christian witness, leading others to Jesus and then stepping out of the way so they follow the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The death of Australian Cardinal George Pell was a shock because just five days earlier he had concelebrated the funeral of Pope...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Francesca Chaouqui, convicted by a Vatican court in 2016 of leaking confidential Vatican documents, was back on the stand before...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- The United States' chief advocate for religious freedom expressed his "disappointment" in the Vatican over its provisional agreement with...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will celebrate the fourth annual Sunday of the Word of God Jan. 22 and, like he did last year, will confer the ministries...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- To understand the Gospel, its beauty and its power, people need to read it, Pope Francis said. "I invite you to rediscover the beauty...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Australian Cardinal George Pell, who died in Rome Jan. 10, never made a secret of his staunch adherence to established Catholic moral teaching...
Read More(OSV News) -- While teaching in a Louisiana public elementary school several years ago, Janice Henry was haunted by one particular student. "The child...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) – James Griffin, executive director of the Durandus Institute for Sacred Music & Liturgy, said the annual Week of Prayer for Christian...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis praised the late Australian Cardinal George Pell as a faithful servant of God and of the Catholic Church, who steadfastly...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI "spread and testified to" the Gospel his entire life, Pope Francis told tens of thousands of people gathered Jan....
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Even though the computational power of "artificial intelligence" has been around for decades, the technology has advanced so rapidly...
Read MoreMANAGUA, Nicaragua (OSV News) -- A court ruled at a Jan. 10 hearing that a Nicaraguan bishop, who has been detained since August, will stand trial on the...
Read MoreLIMA, Peru (OSV News) -- Peru's bishops have called on the country's government to stop violence that claimed at least 18 lives in anti-government protests...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Sharing the faith is the "oxygen" that "invigorates and purifies" Christian life, Pope Francis said. Beginning a new series of catechesis...
Read More(OSV News) -- Australian Cardinal George Pell, former prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy and archbishop of Sydney and of Melbourne, died Jan....
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Jonathan Roumie, known for his role as "Jesus" in the television series The Chosen, and other Catholic speakers are in the lineup...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis criticized the use of artificial intelligence in ways that negatively affect the most vulnerable, specifically those...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The disappearance 40 years ago of Emanuela Orlandi has haunted her family, fueled conspiracy theories and provided grist for a recent...
Read More(OSV News) -- Buffalo Bills football player Damar Hamlin has united the nation and the world in prayer, supporters said at a Jan. 9 community vigil held...
Read More(OSV News) – "Lord, I ask that you take me out of here soon … I want to be with my mom and sister soon. Amen." The prayer of a migrant girl in Ciudad...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Pope Benedict XVI will be remembered as one of the Catholic Church's greatest theologians, said a former U.S. ambassador to the...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- There can be no improvising or going it alone when it comes to preventing and handling cases of abuse in the Catholic Church, said U.S. Cardinal...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- "Peace requires before all else the defense of life," which is threatened by the "alleged 'right to abortion,'" Pope Francis told...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was elected Speaker of the House Jan. 7 after a tumultuous process that stretched across the first...
Read More(OSV News) -- Ukraine's Catholic military chaplains will eventually be "catalysts for the rebuilding" of their war-torn nation, said the president of the...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Soon after Pope Benedict XVI was laid to rest in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica, an Italian publisher released early copies of a book...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With the same spirit and aims that behind his recent reform and reorganization of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis, as Bishop of Rome,...
Read MoreWASHINGTON (OSV News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow retail pharmacies to offer abortion pills in the United States for the first...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When the coffin containing the remains of Pope Benedict XVI was carried into St. Peter's Square, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -– Just before 7 a.m. Jan. 5, the dome of St. Peter's Basilica was so shrouded with fog that it was scarcely visible. Yet the sounds...
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