Posted on 5/14/2013 11:42 AM By Jay
May 20, 2013
Pope Francis told 800 superiors of women’s orders from around the world that the Catholic Church needs religious women and that religious women need to be in harmony with the faith and teachings of the Church.
Posted on 5/7/2013 8:06 AM By Jay
May 13, 2013
Since Blessed John Paul II visited Vidigal, a hillside slum in south Rio de Janeiro, in 1980, life in the settlement has taken a turn for the better.
Posted on 5/7/2013 8:05 AM By Jay
May 13, 2013
Pope Francis called for an end to slave labour and human trafficking as well as greater efforts to create dignified work for more people.
Posted on 5/7/2013 8:03 AM By Jay
May 13, 2013
Every step Roberto Santiago takes – on numbing winter sidewalks, sharp-edged gravel pathways and feathery grass fields – he walks in solidarity with the poorest of the poor.
Posted on 5/7/2013 8:02 AM By Jay
May 13, 2013
The Christian faith is about saying “yes” to God’s love and forgiveness in a way that saying “no” to sin will come naturally, Pope Francis said.
Posted on 5/7/2013 8:01 AM By Jay
May 13, 2013
The unity of the Catholic Church rises or falls to the degree that its members uncompromisingly hold firm to the faith transmitted by the apostles, said Archbishop Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Posted on 5/7/2013 7:59 AM By Jay
May 13, 2013
Catholics and Buddhists share “a profound reverence for life,” which should motivate them to work together to protect human life, including the life of the unborn, said Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
Posted on 5/7/2013 7:57 AM By Jay
May 13, 2013
Meeting at the Vatican May 3, Pope Francis and Lebanese President Michel Sleiman called on the international community to offer concrete aid to Lebanon and other countries hosting hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria.
Posted on 5/7/2013 7:55 AM By Jay
May 13, 2013
People are courageous in pursuing their careers, personal ambitions and jealousies, but they really should be using that courage to believe in the resurrected Christ, pray to him and spread the Gospel, Pope Francis said.
Posted on 5/7/2013 7:53 AM By Jay
May 13, 2013
Bishop Angelo Spina of Sulmona-Valva, Italy, holds snakes used to cover a wooden statue of St. Dominic, before a procession of the statue in Cocullo May 1.
Posted on 4/30/2013 12:17 PM By Jay
May 6, 2013
The head of the Catholic Church’s child safeguarding watchdog in Ireland said he is encouraged by the latest audits of the handling of abuse allegations by dioceses and a religious congregation.
Posted on 4/30/2013 12:15 PM By Jay
May 6, 2013
A Vatican-convoked commission of doctors concluded a healing attributed to Blessed John Paul II had no natural explanation, according to Italian news reports.
Posted on 4/30/2013 12:14 PM By Jay
May 6, 2013
Following Jesus means belonging to the Church, the community that gives Christians their identity, Pope Francis said.
Posted on 4/30/2013 12:12 PM By Jay
May 6, 2013
The Romanian Catholic bishop of St. George, based in Canton, Ohio, no longer ministers just to Romanian Catholics in the United States, he also has formal responsibility for all Romanian Catholics of the Byzantine rite across Canada.
Posted on 4/30/2013 12:11 PM By Jay
May 6, 2013
Pope Francis may publish his first encyclical this year, the Vatican spokesman said.
Posted on 4/30/2013 12:09 PM By Jay
May 6, 2013
A priest from Honduras says the United States is repeating the same errors in Central America as it did in the 1980s, and his country is suffering as a result.
Posted on 4/30/2013 12:04 PM By Jay
May 6, 2013
Even with modern scientific technology, the Shroud of Turin continues to baffle researchers.
Posted on 4/30/2013 12:02 PM By Jay
May 6, 2013
The Belgian bishops’ conference criticized an attack on its president, Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard of Mechelen-Brussels, during which he was soaked with water by half-naked women.
Posted on 4/30/2013 12:00 PM By Jay
May 6, 2013
Visiting Rio de Janeiro, the chief organizer of papal trips confirmed Pope Francis will participate in the key events of World Youth Day July 23-28, and he said other parts of the papal trip are being tailor-made for the new pope.
Posted on 4/24/2013 9:17 AM By Jay
April 29, 2013
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family and the official promoter of the sainthood cause of the late Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, said the process to beatify and eventually canonize the slain Salvadoran archbishop has been unblocked.