In the first Stateside move of the Vatican’s new working year, the most significant opening on the current US docket is off the table… and as Mets fans can always use good news, for once they’re in...
As some US bishops advocate levying de facto sanctions on President Biden and other Catholic politicians for their support of legal abortion, the Holy See's distinct, but veiled skepticism over a...
Before anything else, especially amid all the sorrows, fears, loss and disorientation of a brutal year across the globe, Buon Natale a tutti – to one and all, a Blessed Christmas... may all its light,
Fifteen years (less a day) since Benedict XVI revolutionized the Roman Pontiff's Christmas "greeting" to the leaders of his Curia – transforming the holiday pleasantry into a Pope's ultimate...
Whether you’ve been waiting three decades or just three weeks for this, the “mountaintop” is at hand. From 4pm Rome (10am US ET), the livefeed of a Public Consistory like no other – from the Altar of...
As the US bishops face a moment unseen in most of their lifetimes – the nation's election of a Catholic to the Presidency – the issue of Joe Biden's faith emerged by surprise at today's public close...
Set to begin at 1pm Eastern, this final day of a virtual – and heavily curtailed – USCCB Plenary will be underpinned by what've arguably been the two key threads of American life in 2020: the bench's...
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(L-R) Jesuit Father James Martin and Pete Buttigieg, secretary of the Department of Transportation under President Joe...
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Former assistant secretary of state Robert Destro discusses the need for religious freedom. Pictured from left, Imam Talib Shareef of...
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Speaking in Our Lady of Congo Cathedral in Kinshasa on Feb. 2, 2023, Pope Francis encouraged priests and religious to continue to bring the...
Pope Francis has tapped Bishop Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago native who currently leads the Diocese of Chiclayo in Peru, to take over the Dicastery for Bishops.
Pope Francis heads to the war-torn African nations of the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan this week, where the church has long been on the frontlines of relief efforts amid war, poverty...
Pope Francis will further cement his legacy as an advocate for the suffering and marginalized this week as he heads to Africa for the fourth time, visiting the ravaged nations of the Democratic...
Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra’s testimony is considered especially crucial to the defense case, since theoretically it could undercut the credibility of the star witness for the prosecution, Italian...
In a new, wide-ranging interview with the Associated Press, Pope Francis spoke out on several hot-button issues such as abuse and relations with China and called the ongoing ‘Synodal Path’ reform...
In the latest development amid an ongoing showdown between the Vatican and the German bishops, three top Vatican officials nixed the proposal for a new legislative body governing the church in...
Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, a top papal aide and organizer of Pope Francis’s Synod of Bishops on Synodality, has said current tensions in Catholicism are nothing to worry about, but that...