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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- World No Tobacco Day is observed every May 31 to highlight the harmful effects of tobacco on people's health and the environment. Because...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- World No Tobacco Day is observed every May 31 to highlight the harmful effects of tobacco on people's health and the environment. Because...
Read MoreMEXICO CITY (OSV News) -- A parish priest was shot dead as he drove on a rural Mexican highway May 22, marking yet another attack in what has become the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians should pray on Pentecost that the Holy Spirit would give them the courage and strength to share the Gospel, Pope Francis...
Read More(OSV News) -- When Pope Benedict XVI instituted the Day of Prayer for Catholics in China in 2007, Aloysius Jin Luxian was bishop of Shanghai. That year,...
Read More(OSV News) -- The Scottish Catholic bishops have signed a public statement of protest against a bill to legalize assisted suicide in their country. They...
Read MoreKRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) -- For 17 years, the media ethics conference at the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow has gathered media researchers...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima during his trip to Portugal for World Youth Day 2023, the Vatican said. In...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis formally recognized the martyrdom of an Italian priest shot by Nazi soldiers after they discovered he was helping his...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Global security cannot be guaranteed through stockpiling nuclear weapons but must be centered on an "equitable distribution of the...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has asked Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi of Bologna to lead a mission "to help ease tensions in the conflict in Ukraine,"...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The man who drove past two security checkpoints to enter a Vatican courtyard May 18 was taken to the psychiatric ward of a hospital...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A popular blog that closely monitors the Vatican has reported that Pope Francis wants to send envoys to Moscow and Kyiv to begin...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican has pulled from circulation a World Youth Day stamp of Pope Francis with young people in an image that resembles propaganda...
Read More(OSV News) -- On May 11, when the Title 42 public health order comes to an end, processing of migrants will be fully reinstated under Title 8, a measure...
Read MoreBUENOS AIRES (OSV News) -- Argentina's Catholic Church is going through a process of soul-searching as the country gets ready for general elections in...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Although she died centuries ago, the English mystic Julian of Norwich continues to remind people of the importance of "faith in God's...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In encouraging the peaceful resolution of conflicts and in promoting the common good on the international stage, the Vatican embraces...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis criticized the passage of a law by Portugal's parliament to legalize euthanasia in the country. The controversial law...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Drastic leadership changes in Caritas Internationalis were essential to repair workplace dynamics that "represented clear and real dangers"...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After literally hundreds of public prayers for peace in Ukraine and 443 days after Russia launched an all-out war on the Eastern...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors has been trying to define more clearly its relationship with the Dicastery...
Read MoreLIVERPOOL, England (OSV News) -- An English Catholic bishop has denounced the first reported births of "three-parent" babies in the UK as "deeply concerning." Auxiliary...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Starting a family and having children has become a kind of herculean task when instead it should be valued and supported by everyone, Pope...
Read MoreJERUSALEM (OSV News) -- Faith leaders and activists for coexistence from across Israel gathered in prayer in front of the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has continued his predecessors' serious commitment to ecumenical dialogue, but he also makes ecumenical gestures that...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With the body of a woman and the head of a lioness, the ancient goddess Sekhmet was the protector of pharaohs, the patroness of physicians...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican office in charge of coordinating plans for the Holy Year 2025 announced they are launching a new website and releasing...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Punishing and condemning those guilty of abuse is an act of charity, Pope Francis said. "The abuser is an enemy. Each of us feels this because...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Questioned by the confreres of a Hungarian Jesuit kidnapped with another priest and imprisoned during Argentina's murderous military dictatorship,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The new projects and developments at the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors represent "a major shift toward a more...
Read MoreMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (OSV News) -- Uruguay's Catholic Church celebrated the beatification of Bishop Jacinto Vera May 6. Blessed Bishop Vera was not only...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Missionaries are needed today just like in the past because "there are so many men and women who still need the Gospel, not only...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians have no need to be afraid or hopeless because Jesus always tells the faithful where they are going and how to get there,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis asked 23 new members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard to draw close to the sacraments, read Scripture and meditate on spiritual...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- Alongside departure listings and boarding gates, the 35,000 passengers who walk through Terminal 1 at Rome's largest airport each day can...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Safeguarding minors and vulnerable persons must be a priority for everyone in the church, Pope Francis said. "The principles of...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Pope Francis told reporters the Vatican had some kind of "mission" underway to promote an end to the war in Ukraine, journalists...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- The Sovereign Order of Malta has elected Canadian Fra' John T. Dunlap as its 81st grand master, the first non-European to head the order...
Read MoreBUDAPEST, Hungary (CNS) -- Praising the piety and charity of Hungarian Christians and their commitment to supporting traditional family life, Pope Francis...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Moscow is not working with the Vatican to end the war in Ukraine, said a Kremlin spokesperson. Asked by reporters May 2 if the Russian...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Nestled in the arms of Bernini's colonnade around St. Peter's Square, 26 photos of women and girls make up an art exhibit meant to...
Read More(OSV News) -- When King Charles III is crowned May 6 in the gothic splendor of London's ancient Westminster Abbey, it will be one of the year's most watched...
Read MoreABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM HUNGARY (CNS) -- The Holy See has a project underway related to peace between Russia and Ukraine, but Pope Francis told reporters...
Read MoreBUDAPEST, Hungary (CNS) -- To be Christian is to be open and welcoming to others, Pope Francis said as he celebrated Mass outside Hungary's Parliament...
Read MoreBUDAPEST, Hungary (CNS) -- The life of faith is not a game, but it does require commitment and training, Pope Francis told thousands of Hungarian young...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Humanity needs a revolution in how it thinks about sex, Pope Francis said. "We need to discover the beauty of human sexuality by...
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