IMAGE: CNS photo/James Ross, AAP Image via Reuters By Michael Sainsbury VALLA BEACH, Australia (CNS) -- Cardinal George Pell has been released from prison after 405 days behind bars after the seven...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Matt Stone, Courier Journal via Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Local churches and individuals must do more to help and to protect the elderly from loneliness and...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob Roller By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Everyone is born to be a servant of God, yet they are also sinners, Pope Francis said. What is important, then, is for people to...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Disease and death have darkened the world this Lent and Holy Week, with our societies shut down by the coronavirus pandemic, but "we know that...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Debbie Hill By Judith Sudilovsky JERUSALEM (CNS) -- Nadine Bitar wore a surgical mask and waited 109 yards from her home in the Old City -- as permitted by the Israeli Ministry of...
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, has asked Vatican cardinals, archbishops and other top officials to make a monetary Easter offering to assist people suffering during the coronavirus...
Local churches and individuals must do more to help and to protect the elderly from loneliness and infection during the coronavirus pandemic, a Vatican office said.
On the day that Cardinal George Pell was acquitted by Australia’s High Court on charges of sexual abuse, Pope Francis opened his daily Mass by praying for “all persons who suffer an unjust sentence...
In an April 7 statement just hours after the court’s verdict, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said, “The Holy See, which has always expressed confidence in the Australian judicial authority, welcomes...
With the elderly notably representing the largest demographic of lives claimed by the COVID-19 coronavirus, the Vatican’s top official on life issues has warned against selective care practices that...
By Coronavirus Update | Updated April 7 at 10:01 a.m. Eastern. Prayer April 4: Safe Ground in Anxious Times: The Power of Family Prayer (Father David L. Guffey C.S.C) April 3: Priests...
By Courtney Mares/CNA. | PARIS, France — One year after the world watched the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris burn, the Archbishop of Paris will display the relic of Christ’s crown of thorns...
By Regis Martin | There are two things that can safely be said about the pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II. One, that here was a man steeped in the love of God and love for the Church, which he...
By Catholic News Agency | VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has welcomed the Australian High Court’s decision to quash Cardinal George Pell’s sexual abuse conviction. A statement from the Holy See.
By Hannah Brockhaus/CNA. | VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis prayed at Mass Tuesday for all those who have been persecuted by an unjust sentence, offering the prayer hours after Australia’s High...