A Catholic conference for African Americans promises to equip and empower participants, especially youth and youth ministers, with what is... Read more
Priests must be more fully who they are, said Bishop Jan Babjak, the Byzantine Catholic bishop of Presov, East Slovakia. Read more
The St. Benedict Center, a Benedictine ecumenical community in Madison for the past 40 years, has chosen to end its... Read more
The Bishops’ Conference of Mexico announced its complete confidence Monday in the country’s electoral institutions and expressed its hope that... Read more
A Franciscan priest was killed this week in Colombia in the northern region of Magdalena. Initial investigations indicate the 46... Read more
Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary, Father Georg Gänswein, said this week with Germany and Italy playing each other in the... Read more
Bishop Joaquin Piña of Puerto Iguazu, Argentina, said this week the World Meeting of Families in Valencia will shed light... Read more
Benedict XVI has sent a telegram of condolence to Archbishop Agustin Garcia-Gasco of Valencia, Spain, for the death of more... Read more
The Vatican Information Service has released a brief schedule for the Holy Father’s vacation and summer residency. Read more
After three years of study of the devotion to “Our Lady of the Hill,” the Archdiocese of Salta has announced... Read more
The twenty Cuban families that will arrive in Valencia to participate in the 5th World Meeting of Families constitute the... Read more
The Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez, has called for the heaviest punishment possible for men... Read more
In response to the violent ousting by police of hundreds of residents in the province of Los Rios, the bishops... Read more
A man stabbed a Roman Catholic priest Sunday in the Black Sea port of Samsun in the third attack against... Read more
A bronze statue of Pope John Paul II was unveiled in his hometown Friday. Read more
The Diocese of Marsabit in northeastern Kenya held a ceremony Sunday to officially open a shrine dedicated to the Virgin... Read more
Yesterday Pope Benedict XVI devoted the focus of his Angelus message to The Fifth World Meeting of Families, which will... Read more
After praying the Angelus today with thousands of faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square, the Pope spoke of the "growing... Read more
On Thursday, the Center for Reproductive Rights, a pro-abortion lobby and legal support group, held a briefing on Capitol Hill... Read more
After seven hours of debate, Argentina’s House of Representatives approved a law legalizing sterilizations and vasectomies despite massive opposition from... Read more