After Pope Francis turned down a request for a Vatican-backed investigation of the scandals surrounding ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, US bishops are now pondering next steps -- including probes in...
With much of the Catholic world still scratching its head about the lack of details on a new deal between the Vatican and China on the appointment of bishops, many of which are vague, a man close to...
An otherwise unknown figure in the Catholic Church, the late Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo Higuera has recently been identified as the one who opened the opened the door for the first complaints made...
God went looking for and chose so many Christians and saints from the dregs of society, inviting some of the worst sinners to be his disciples, Pope Francis said in a morning homily.
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO ROME (CNS) -- The Catholic Church has grown in its understanding of the horror of clerical sexual abuse and of the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/CBS Entertainment By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Television audiences may recall seeing actor Joe Morton as Eli Rowan Pope, the father of professional Washington fixer Olivia...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden TALLINN, Estonia (CNS) -- In what is probably the least religious country in Europe, Pope Francis said he is surprised by how many people hold firm to...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Norma Montenegro Flynn GRAPEVINE, Texas (CNS) -- Hispanic Catholic leaders are living an important moment in the history of the Catholic church in the U.S. and are...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VILNIUS, Lithuania (CNS) -- Outside the former KGB headquarters in Vilnius, Pope Francis ended a day of paying homage to victims of totalitarianism and of...
By Tito Edwards | Adam & Eve Are Myth, Really? – Regis Nicoll, Crisis Magazine Hate Signs – Mark Bauerlein, First Things A Comprehensive List of Catholic Podcasts for Every...
By Kevin Di Camillo | The “poor” young, rich man in Matthew 19:16-23. I say “poor” because I think he’s gotten a raw deal over the centuries of teaching on the difficulty of the rich entering the...
By Angelo Stagnaro | In a previous article, I outlined the reasons why the Catholic Church is, indeed, the One, True, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. However, if there was even the slightest of...
By Jim Graves | Religious sisters teaching in Catholic schools have become a rarity today, as vocations to the religious life have declined dramatically in the past few generations despite a growing...
By Sherry Antonetti | Everything aches. We talk about it. It still hurts. We don’t talk about it. It hurts more. This scandal is an aching leaking open wound to the heart. We have been pierced. It’s...