IMAGE: CNS photo/Aziz Taher, Reuters By BEIRUT (CNS) -- As Lebanon's Catholic leaders appealed for help for their country, international and U.S. organizations appealed for donations for Beirut...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Brooklyn By Ian Alvano WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Father Christopher Heanue started his morning July 27 by celebrating Mass at 5 a.m. and then took off on a 100-mile...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Yuriko Nakao, Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- For peace to flourish, weapons of war must be set aside, especially nuclear weapons that can obliterate entire cities and...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Changing the words of the formula for baptism render the sacrament invalid, said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul McErlane, Reuters By Michael Kelly DUBLIN (CNS) -- Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, has hailed political leader John Hume as a "paragon of peace"...
The coronavirus pandemic has complicated the situation of migrants and refugees, but it has not stopped people from seeking safety and a better life abroad, and it has not diverted the Vatican's...
The drastic reduction in people’s mobility because of the COVID-19 pandemic could be an opportunity for moving one’s heart and mind instead — and for finding other ways to be close to and supportive...
The recent appointment of six women to the Vatican's chief financial body has been praised as a significant stride in Pope Francis's consistent insistence that more women are needed in leadership...
Pope Francis on Thursday marked the 75th anniversary of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima by calling for peace and repeating that not only the use of atomic weapons but their mere possession is immoral.
By Catholic News Agency | Following an explosion that killed more than 200 people in Beirut, international Catholic groups have responded by providing health services and necessities to the...
By Brianna Heldt | The domestic church was always important, but it might matter even more now. Unless you’ve been living under a rock — which, frankly, sounds pretty nice right about now — you know...
By Matthew Archbold | We have largely outsourced death to hospices and nursing homes. We have come to expect that all suffering be banished with high doses of medication. And like any cultural change,
By Peter Jesserer Smith | St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church is the U.S.’s newest Catholic parish in the Black Catholic tradition and is a profound declaration from the Diocese of Pittsburgh that...
By Michael J. New | There has probably been more polling on the issue of abortion than any other public policy issue. Countless polls have asked people to identify themselves as either “pro-life” or..