Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando José Álvarez offered a message of love to the world Aug. 7 even as he continued to be detained by police inside a church building in Matagalpa. "We have to respond to hate ...
A Catholic bioethics institute urged the U.K. government to speed up a review of the rights of the parents of sick children after doctors ended the life of a brain-damaged boy against the wishes of ...
For the poor in Lebanon whose lives are clouded in misery, even a fresh coat of paint can brighten bleak living conditions. That's what Caritas Lebanon youth volunteers are doing for 40 needy families all over ...
Pope Francis' September visit to Kazakhstan will mostly focus on a gathering of religious leaders from around the world, but it will also include a Mass and meeting with Catholics in this Muslim-majority nation. The Vatican ...
Thousands of pilgrims hiked up Ireland's holiest mountain for the annual Reek Sunday pilgrimage, held for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The pilgrimage traditionally is held the last Sunday of July, but it ...
During his much-anticipated six-day trip to Canada, which he called a “penitential pilgrimage,” Pope Francis offered heartfelt apologies for the Church’s role in the abuses committed at Canada’s residential schools, where, for over a century, ...
On a stage designed to evoke a qammaq -- a traditional Inuit summer home built of whale ribs, sod and stone -- Pope Francis again apologized to the Indigenous communities of Canada for Catholics' complicity ...
Meeting Indigenous survivors of residential schools in Canada, Pope Francis entrusted them and the journey of truth, healing and reconciliation to three women: St. Anne, Mary and St. Kateri Tekakwitha. "These women can help us to ...
In the face of sin and failure, the temptation to wallow in despair and do nothing comes from the devil, Pope Francis said. While commentators, politicians and survivors discussed whether Pope Francis' apology for the Catholic ...
A diocese in the northern Philippines appealed for aid July 27 after a magnitude 7 earthquake that killed at least four and injured dozens. The Archdiocese of Tuguegarao in northeastern Luzon said churches and historical sites ...
