Eastern Catholic churches must strengthen their liturgical identity, especially given ongoing conflicts in many of the homelands of those churches and the continuing migration of Eastern Catholics to countries where most Catholics belong to the Latin rite.
The Diocese of Petrópolis and the city's parishes have opened their doors to assist victims of the torrential rainstorm that flooded the historic city of Petrópolis.
A priest who stood in for a 15-year-old boy who he thought was going to be executed during Spain's bloody civil war will be among a group of 16 priests, seminarians and laymen who are set to be beatified in Granada, Spain.
A national network of institutes of Catholic thought will soon launch as part of a new $3.65 million grant, issued by the John Templeton Foundation Feb. 1.
A Canadian cardinal who works at the Vatican remembered Bishop Remi De Roo, in all his strengths and faults, for his commitment to promoting social justice.
The same love that gave St. Joseph the strength to protect Jesus and Mary must inspire Christians to love the church, especially when calling out its sins and flaws, Pope Francis said
Italy's Constitutional Court has blocked a national referendum on legalizing euthanasia, saying it would violate constitutional protections of human life
Oil spills on opposite sides of Peru — one near Lima and the other in a remote Indigenous village in the Amazon — brought together Catholics in the two regions for simultaneous Masses as they marked the second anniversary of Querida Amazonia.
Catholic school enrollment increased for the first time in two decades this school year, according to a preliminary report released by the National Catholic Educational Association.
Pope Francis made several changes to church law, granting greater authority to individual bishops, bishops' conferences and synods of bishops of the Eastern Catholic churches.
The archbishop of Miami said Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida had hit a "new low" after the politician said it was "disgusting" to compare Cubans who fled the island-nation as unaccompanied minors in the 1960s with present waves of migrant children from Central America.
As fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine continue to mount, the Ukrainian Catholic bishops of the U.S. have called for a three-day prayer vigil "for peace and the conversion of the hearts of those who preach violence and escalate war."
The plenary approved three texts in a second reading; two-thirds of nearly 230 delegates, including bishops, approved the texts; in a separate vote of just bishops, the texts still garnered two-thirds of the votes.
The project involves building more than 800 miles of pipeline in Uganda and Tanzania, which the Laudato Si' Movement says poses a severe threat to environmental conservation, biodiversity protection and climate change mitigation.
Republicans are divided on an immigration bill introduced by members of their own party that would grant citizenship to millions who are in the country without legal permission.
The "Walk for Peace," organized by the Archdiocese of San Francisco's Restorative Justice Ministry, brought together Bay Area volunteers, parishioners, and community members to publicly call for an end to the violence.