In his book, Italian seminarian Rosario Vitale calls on the Church to legislate on the status of retired pontiffs especially if future popes choose to follow in the path set by Pope Benedict XVI's...
Pope Francis is “profoundly saddened” by the death of the father and daughter from El Salvador who were photographed after they drowned while they attempted to cross the Rio Grande to reach the...
Many terrorist attacks and other violence against houses of worship, religious sites and faith communities around the world "are finally receiving the attention, condemnation and committed...
U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke has resigned from the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, saying it has become "more and more identified with the political program" of Steve Bannon.
Millions of Catholics live their faith through their association with lay movements and Catholic groups, but some also have lost their faith when they were sexually abused in those groups and felt...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- U.S. bishops joined Pope Francis in expressing sadness after seeing photos of the lifeless bodies of a migrant father and his daughter who drowned near...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Marcia per la Vita By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke has resigned from the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, saying it has become "more and more identified...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- To be part of a Christian community is to belong to a group of believers who shun selfishness and give witness to God's love...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Deborah Gyapong, Canadian Catholic News By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The archbishop of Havana said his predecessor, Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino, is in stable condition, but...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Lucy Nicholson, Reuters By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The president's threats came and went in tweets, but priests, women and men religious, church-affiliated organizations and...
By Edward Pentin | Pope Francis will hold a consistory on Monday for the canonization of Blessed John Henry Newman and four other blessed, during which he is expected to announce...
By Catholic News Agency | BISMARCK - North Dakota’s sole abortion clinic, located in Fargo, is filing a lawsuit against two state laws that it claims force doctors to present false information,...
By Mary Rezac/CNA | CHICAGO - Maybe it’s the signature bump of the baseball off her bicep before pitching the perfect curve ball. Maybe it’s that she does it all in a full black and white habit with...
By Fr. Roger Landry | Friday is the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and, since 2002, the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests. It’s a day on which, pondering the divine...
By Lauretta Brown | Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the political arm of the nation’s largest abortion provider, hosted a “We Decide” forum Saturday where 20 of the 23 Democratic presidential...