Catholic leader blasts Israeli conduct at journalist funeral
JERUSALEM -- The top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land on May 16 condemned the police beating of mourners carrying the casket of Al Jazeera journalist...
Read MoreJERUSALEM -- The top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land on May 16 condemned the police beating of mourners carrying the casket of Al Jazeera journalist...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY -- The Vatican's foreign minister, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, is heading to Kyiv this week as the Holy See seeks to balance its concern...
Read MoreROME (AP) -- Doctors have prescribed a wheelchair, cane and physical therapy to help heal Pope Francis' bad knee. He has other ideas. According to...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The steady decline of birthrates across Europe and the West are signs of a new form of poverty that deprives humanity of a future,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Granting an exception to canon law, Pope Francis said the Vatican office that deals with religious orders can permit men's communities...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis praised the way people have faced the trials and losses in their lives with a firmness of faith in God's promises and...
Read MoreJohn Paul II began his pontificate with the words "Be not afraid" -- a phrase that the Polish pope's biographer believes can be applied to Vatican...
Read MoreThe Archdiocese of Santa Fe has agreed on a $121.5 million bankruptcy settlement to provide compensation for hundreds of sexual abuse victims, the archdiocese...
Read MoreOver one hundred years ago on May 18, Emilia Wojtyla gave birth to her second son, Karol, after a difficult and life-threatening pregnancy. The child would...
Read MorePope Francis said on Wednesday that learning about St. Charles de Foucauld's spirituality helped him during a period of crisis as a theology student. "I...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The "basic dynamism" of the Catholic Church is its missionary outreach, an effort that should and must flow naturally from a desire...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians must be ready to respond with love and charity to those in need, especially the victims of today's throwaway culture,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The lives of France's newest saints can inspire young people to persevere and hope amid difficulties and trying times, Pope Francis...
Read MoreJERUSALEM (AP) _ Israeli police decided on Saturday to investigate the conduct of their officers who attacked the funeral of a slain Al Jazeera journalist,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The lives of the saints prove that holiness is not an unreachable goal accomplished by a select few but comes from acknowledging...
Read MoreSpain's coalition government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez intends to propose a bill that would legalize abortion without parental consent for...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (RNS) -- Two Catholic priests, both astrophysicists from the Vatican Observatory, have suggested a radically new mathematical approach to...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said he is convinced God is calling his peers -- older Catholics -- to become "artisans of the revolution of tenderness." Through...
Read MoreVatican City (CNA) -- With the interview granted to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on May 3, Pope Francis seemed to burn the bridges of ecumenical...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will meet members of Canada's Indigenous communities in late July, visiting the cities of Edmonton, Quebec and Iqaluit...
Read MoreMEXICO CITY (CNS) -- An audit ordered by the Vatican into the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires has revealed irregularities in the sales of church assets, with...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis told older people to use retirement as a time to serve others and to sow the seeds of their wisdom. When people retire,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The young wife of the commander of the Ukrainian battalion still holed up in a steel plant in Mariupol had what she described as...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After a long pandemic pause, Pope Francis is scheduled to celebrate a Mass May 15 for the canonization of 10 men and women: five...
Read MoreHONG KONG (CNS) -- Hong Kong's national security police released Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, retired archbishop of Hong Kong, May 11 after detaining him...
Read MoreHONG KONG (CNS) -- Hong Kong's national security police have detained Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, retired archbishop of Hong Kong, along with former opposition...
Read MoreA Catholic charity announced this week that it would fund the restoration of a Ukrainian seminary looted by Russian forces. Aid to the Church in Need...
Read MoreMore than 60 journalists have petitioned Pope Francis to make Titus Brandsma an official patron saint of journalism. An open letter published on May 10...
Read MorePope Francis will preside over the first canonizations in more than two years this weekend. Ten people will be officially recognized as saints by the...
Read MoreThe German "Synodal Way" has created worldwide controversy. But how much it is costing the Catholic Church remains a mystery. A spokesman for the Church...
Read MoreWith the interview granted to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on May 3, Pope Francis seemed to burn the bridges of ecumenical dialogue with the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said he wants LGBT Catholics to know that God is a father who "does not disown any of his children." The pope's comment...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The study and celebration of the liturgy should lead to a sense of awe before God, a commitment to mission and a growing unity within...
Read MoreCardinal George Pell said Friday that the recent testimony of Cardinal Angelo Becciu at the Vatican finance trial "was somewhat incomplete." He drew particular...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Doing nothing to overcome the divisions among Christians means allowing tensions to fester and even feed conflict, Pope Francis said. "Ignoring...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting new recruits to the Swiss Guard, Pope Francis thanked the young men for their diligent and important work serving the successor...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' secretary of state reaffirmed the pope's offer to go to Moscow personally to try to convince President Vladimir Putin...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis praised members of the U.S.-based Papal Foundation for helping the Catholic Church build "a culture of solidarity and...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will have therapeutic injections to try to alleviate the pain in his right knee, he told an Italian newspaper. "I have...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Warning that the Russian Orthodox patriarch should not "turn himself into Putin's altar boy," Pope Francis also said he would like...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Taking the stand for a second time at his Vatican trial, Cardinal Angelo Becciu spent more than two hours reading a statement in...
Read MoreNEW YORK (CNS) -- New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said he was surprised and inspired by Ukrainians he met when he made a brief visit to Lviv, Ukraine. "I...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting with superiors general of women's religious orders, Pope Francis arrived in a wheelchair -- the first time he has used one...
Read MoreTRIER, Germany (CNS) -- Bishop Stephan Ackermann of Trier has suspended the proceedings for the sainthood cause of Father Joseph Kentenich, founder of...
Read MoreCOLOGNE, Germany (CNS) -- The Vatican believes Cologne Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki and his vicar general, Msgr. Markus Hofmann, did not violate canon...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- An agreement between the Vatican and a Swiss foundation overseeing renovations to the Swiss Guard barracks may open the possibility...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Because of unscrupulous people, religious communities need to be prudent and diligent when selling their assets and properties, Pope...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Elderly Christians are called to be consistent in their faith, otherwise they risk becoming a sign of hypocrisy for future generations,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis expressed his opposition to nuclear weapons and the threat they pose to the world during a meeting with Japanese Prime...
Read MorePope Francis will undergo a medical procedure on his knee on Tuesday, according to Italian media reports. The 85-year-old pope said in an interview published...
Read MorePope Francis has said that he will not visit Ukraine right now, but he would like to meet Vladimir Putin in Moscow if the Russian president is willing. In...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Renewing his appeal for peace, Pope Francis said he grieves for the suffering of the Ukrainian people, especially given reports of...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has given his safeguarding commission a "very clear" mandate to encourage and supervise the world's bishops' conferences...
Read MoreThe bishops of Spain have asked forgiveness for sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, while defending the Catholic Church's right to oppose laws which violate...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis asked his safeguarding commission to provide an annual audit of what the church is doing to protect minors and what...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Three years after multiple bombings killed more than 260 people on Easter and lingering questions remain about those behind the attacks,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Those who are called to be missionaries of mercy are entrusted with the important task of being the face and the voice of God's love...
Read MoreLUBLIN, Poland (CNS) -- In a cavernous warehouse on the edge of Lublin, Piotr Piskorski sees too much empty space, especially near the pallets of baby...
Read MoreNAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) -- Emilio Stanley Mwai Kibaki, who served as president of Kenya from 2002 to 2012, died April 22. He was 90. President Uhuru Kenyatta...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In an Easter message to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope Francis prayed that the Holy Spirit would "transform our...
Read MorePope Francis on Saturday appointed secretaries of the doctrinal and disciplinary sections of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
Read MoreLVIV, Ukraine (CNS) -- The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations called on every Russian religious figure, regardless of confessional...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican has wrapped up its own investigation and dismissed allegations that Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz had covered up...
Read MoreWARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- As Russia's war on Ukraine continues and refugees keep seeking safety in Poland, a Polish official said, "I'm getting less and...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican will never stop its diplomatic efforts to mediate an end to the war against Ukraine, Pope Francis said. However, the...
Read MoreA Catholic priest was expelled from Russia without explanation, amid fears for the well-being of other clergy ministering in the country. Father Fernando...
Read MoreKONSTANCIN-JEZIORNA, Poland (CNS) -- David, 11, wouldn't mind staying in Poland a while longer, maybe traveling around to see more of the country. But...
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