At the request of various bishops' conferences, Pope Francis has changed the date of the World Day of Migrants and Refugees to the last Sunday of September.
Antimicrobial resistance poses a "great challenge" to global public health and puts the most vulnerable in our society at risk, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for...
Concerning a report that he and Cardinal Donald Wuerl worked out an alternative plan on sex abuse reform ahead of the recent US bishops meeting, Cardinal Blase Cupich told Crux: “At no time prior to...
Former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon has said the entire human rights movement has fallen victim to a new form of skepticism that risks bringing it to collapse, with religious...
By Marge Fenelon | I used to journal – ages ago. Sadly, my professional writing took the upper hand, leaving little time and energy for me to write solely for myself. A new book from Ascension Press...
By Joanna Bogle | The Palace of Westminster is undergoing substantial repairs at the moment, and so it looks rather odd. The great gothic-inspired tower that takes its name from its famous clock is...
By Christine Rousselle/CNA | ST. LOUIS — A gunman remains on the loose after shooting a woman and sexually assaulting another at the Catholic Supply of St. Louis retail store in Ballwin,...
By Joseph Pronechen | The “Heart of a Priest” nationwide relic tour of the incorrupt heart of St. John Vianney, Curé of Ars, the patron of priests, fittingly launched at St Mary Church in New...
By Edward Pentin | After two years of bureaucratic delays and differences between local citizens and their bishop, public pressure has appeared to ensure that the basilica of St. Benedict in...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sarah Webb, CatholicPhilly.com By Gina Christian PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- Thanksgiving should be a daily attitude rather than an annual observance, according to an American Indian...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rich Kalonick courtesy Catholic Extension By CHICAGO (CNS) -- Sister Marie-Paule Willem, a Franciscan Missionary of Mary, who has been serving the poor in the U.S. and around the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Vatican Dicastery for Communication By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After Islamic terrorists stormed the Algerian monastery he called home, Trappist Father...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Late Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and former NFL quarterback Roger Staubach, both devout Catholics, received the Presidential Medal...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Reuters By SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) -- Cal Fire officials reported that the death toll had reached 77 in the Camp Fire north of Sacramento, one of the deadliest blazes in the state...