IMAGE: CNS photo/Sean Gallagher, The Criterion By Natalie Hoefer INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) -- Outside, a cold drizzle dampened Indianapolis Nov. 21. Inside the city's convention center, however, it seemed...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters By David Agren MEXICO CITY (CNS) -- Pro-government mobs besieged another Nicaraguan parish, further inflaming tensions between the Catholic Church and...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden BANGKOK (CNS) -- Meeting Thai religious leaders and then celebrating Mass with Catholic young adults, Pope Francis encouraged them to strengthen a culture...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Erin Scott, Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A federal judge Nov. 20 temporarily blocked the executions of four federal death-row inmates scheduled for December and...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Marcelo Perez del Carp By Manuel Rueda A church located on the outskirts of Bolivia's capital city became an improvised morgue Nov. 20, following another deadly day of protests in...
A negligent and selfish culture of food waste is fueling the global hunger crisis, damaging the lives of individuals and preventing the progress of all people, Pope Francis said.
A board member of the Vatican’s financial watchdog has resigned in the wake of a Vatican police raid that resulted in the agency’s suspension from the global communications network of financial...
Interreligious dialogue is an important way to counter fundamentalist groups as well as the unjust accusation that religions sow division, Pope Francis said.
Although people may have different ways of praying or of serving their parish or the poor, the Catholic Church needs laity, priests, religious, parishes and lay movements to collaborate in order to...
By Patrick Reilly | A group of students at the University of Notre Dame recently staged a sit-in to protest “parietals”: rules prohibiting students of the opposite sex from spending the night in each...
By Catholic News Agency | BOSTON — An independent investigation into the Archdiocese of Boston’s St. John’s Seminary has found incidents of sexual misconduct but no seminarywide culture of...
By Kathy Schiffer | On Nov. 22, 1963–some 56 years ago–three famous individuals died on the same day. One, of course, was U.S. President JOHN F. KENNEDY, whose life was ended when a shot rang...
By Steven D. Greydanus | What do you do with the mad that you feel? As adults, we don’t hear Mr. Rogers’ question being directed to us, because he put it in a rhyming song simple enough for the...
By Father Raymond J. de Souza | The beatification of Venerable Fulton Sheen, delayed for several years, is now on an accelerated pace to completion. The Diocese of Peoria, Illinois, announced...