When Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president on Jan. 20, there were fears in places like this of cutbacks in lifesaving Western support. Over two weeks on, many Ukrainians are struggling to stay upbeat about their tortured country's chances over the coming year.
Catholic advocacy groups, southern border dioceses and the U.S. bishops' conference are expressing deep concern after President Trump signed a series of executive orders targeting immigration on his first week in the Oval Office.
During an ecumenical prayer service at St. Paul Outside the Walls to mark the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reiterated the official position taken by St. Paul VI that if Eastern Christians agree on a way to determine a common date for Easter, the Catholic Church would accept it.
In a viral Fox News interview, the vice president suggested that it is more Christian to prioritize your family over a stranger, but Jesus wanted us to demolish the categories that keep us from seeing each other as worthy of love in the first place.
In many respects, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and Cardinal Timothy Dolan have traveled similar paths to the most powerful office in the church, except for pope.
U.S. Catholic education should be promoting democracy. Discussion-based learning is the way to do it. Theology teachers Russell Fiorella and Cappy Russell discuss.
For Syria's post-regime change future to be successful, the head of the Catholic Church's leading humanitarian and social service confederation has one clear message: End the sanctions now.
In many respects, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn and Cardinal Timothy Dolan have traveled similar paths to the most powerful office in the church, except for pope.
The Vatican bank fired a newlywed couple, with three young children between them, after a new internal bank regulation went into effect barring workplace marriages.
In response to the effects of climate change, Sr. Juunza Mwangani, who is the project manager of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit, recognized opportunity among the people of southern Zambia, who are farmers by nature.
Fray Bartolomé, as the Maká call it, was offered to them through a decree issued in 1944 by strongman Higinio Morínigo, then Paraguay's president. It was meant as a present, the Maká have said, to acknowledge their courage and the role they played during the Chaco War against Bolivia in the 1930s.
Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno, who has led the observatory since 2015, shares his journey of becoming a Jesuit astronomer, explains the compatibility of science and faith and guides readers on how to look at the heavens in a new book released Feb. 4 by Loyola Press.
For more than two decades, Interfaith Power and Light has galvanized faith voices around climate change and environmental justice. Its leaders said their work as a top moral voice will continue through its 40 state and regional affiliates.
In Torrent of Grace: A Catholic Survivor's Healing Journey after Clergy Abuse, Mark Joseph Williams contributes to a concerningly limited literary genre in the church: clergy abuse survivor narratives.
In We Burn Daylight, Bret Anthony Johnston tells a fictional story similar to 1993 Waco siege to engage questions about religious freedom, state-sanctioned violence and the blurry line between church and cult.
"Planetwalker" is a documentary about John Francis, an uncommon globetrotter who embarked on a yearslong trek for the environment, with 17 of those years observing a vow of silence.
In A Whole Life in Twelve Movies, authors Kathleen Norris and Gareth Higgins seed fruitful conversation and fulfill the human need for "art that's steeped in the mystery of life."
In response to the effects of climate change, Sr. Juunza Mwangani, who is the project manager of the Sisters of the Holy Spirit, recognized opportunity among the people of southern Zambia, who are farmers by nature.
Sr. Leticia Gutiérrez, director of the El Paso Diocese's Hospitality Ministry for Migrants, shares how the Scalabrinian sisters and lay volunteers support migrants entering the U.S. through treacherous mountain routes.
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Q&A with Sr. Baptista Rema, treating snakebite victims in Bangladesh
Salesian Sr. Baptista Rema is in charge of treating an average of one to two snakebite cases daily — around 400 patients annually at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Baromari, Sherpur, Bangladesh.
"We don't go in and build houses. We don't go in and dig ditches. We go in and talk to the Haitian people about what their needs are," said Adrian Dominican Sr. Rosemary Finnegan in a recent interview.
