10.30am – Beginning by saying that "this family is in need of a tremendous amount of healing" following 22 months of crisis, now capped by today's resignation of Bishop Richard Malone...
After a year and a half of crisis and torment for the 570,000 Catholics of Western New York, the wait is over – on Wednesday, the diocese of Buffalo is set to fall vacant upon the resignation of...
In the space of just four decades, the church in Southern California's "Inland Empire" based in San Bernardino has grown at a nearly unparalleled rate in modern times: today, the two-county...
Over Francis' nearly eight years on Peter's Chair, a critical emphasis of his pontificate on the wider scale has been a concerted effort to burnish the Holy See's "soft power" – the degree...
As last week in Baltimore was marked by a general mood of siege mentality among the US bishops, these last weeks of 2019 will bring a rare feel-good moment for the bench: for just the second time...
(Updated 10am with election results) BALTIMORE – Nine years ago on this Election Morning, as the leadership of the nation's largest religious body hung in the balance, this scribe asked a favorite op...
BALTIMORE – A hundred years since the bishops of the United States – freshly gathered into an episcopal conference – made their first collective strike on the national stage with a sweeping Program...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Linda Petersen, Intermountain Catholic By Linda Petersen SALT LAKE CITY (CNS) -- As an attorney with Becket, a religious liberty law firm, Luke Goodrich is proud to be able to make a...
IMAGE: CNS By PEORIA, Ill. (CNS) -- Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria said Dec. 3 Vatican officials have told him that the upcoming beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen has been postponed. A...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican unveiled the Nativity scene and lit the Christmas tree with energy-saving lights in St. Peter's Square during a late...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Buffalo By BUFFALO, N.Y. (CNS) -- Buffalo Bishop Richard J. Malone told Catholics Dec. 4 he asked Pope Francis to allow him to retire early so the people of the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Susana Vera, Reuters By Paige Hanley VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Despite growing recognition of climate change as a legitimate and looming threat, current commitments to mitigate its...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis scolded people who consider themselves practicing Christians, but who turn to fortunetelling, psychic readings...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Spirit Juice, courtesy Knights of Columbus By Andrew Butler Jeffrey Rentegrado never expected that his career as a fisherman could put his life in danger. Nor did he know his faith --
By Msgr. Charles Pope | Judge Sara Smolenski, Chief Judge of the 63rd District Court in Kent County, Michigan, was recently advised by her pastor, Father Scott Nolan, that she should not receive Holy...
By Father Raymond J. de Souza | That postponement of the beatification of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen is just the latest baffling development in the cause that has brought no small measure of...
By John Clark | We live in an age of lesser — lesser goods, lesser men, and a widespread acceptance of lesser evils among the great evils of the age. To make matters worse, we’ve become much too...
By Catholic News Agency | WASHINGTON, D.C. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on Thursday rejected the suggestion that she “hates” President Donald Trump, and said that her Catholic faith...
By Edward Pentin | The situation facing Christians in Northern Iraq remains unstable and uncertain but some hopeful signs are emerging and the Trump administration’s aid to the region is “very...
By Courtney Mares/CNA | VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis decried the mistreatment of migrants and said that he is shocked by anti-immigration narratives within Europe during a conversation with...
By Catholic News Agency | OUAHIGOUYA, Burkina Faso — Following the death of more than a dozen Christians in a church shooting over the weekend, a Burkina Faso bishop said Western governments...
Four years after publishing his provocative encyclical 'Laudato Si', Pope Francis has criticized its implementation, saying in two separate messages published this week that the global resolutions...
The Vatican unveiled the Nativity scene and lit the Christmas tree with energy-saving lights in St. Peter's Square during a late afternoon ceremony Dec. 5.
Each day, a bishop should know Jesus is asking him the same question he asked St. Peter -- "Do you love me?" -- and giving him the same charge, "Feed my sheep," said Archbishop...
Pope Francis asked his “charitable right arm,” Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, to bring 33 migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon and Togo who had been stranded on the Greek island of Lesbos, back to...
Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals reviewed aspects of the draft of the apostolic constitution that would govern the Roman Curia, including a greater role for lay men and women.