The Vatican will launch its first conference of Christians and Confucians to expand the Catholic Church’s outreach to the Asian ethical tradition. The Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue will hold the colloquium “Dialogue on the Contribution…
Florida’s Catholic bishops are urging state residents to work to bring about an end to the death penalty, describing it as a “culture of death” and incompatible with a full Catholic understanding of the value…
Firefighters in France and Spain were bracing for more challenges on Tuesday, as a spell of hot and very dry weather was making its way through southwestern Europe, where wildfires continue to threaten life and…
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Authorities in Bosnia on Tuesday investigated the desecration of a Virgin Mary statue and a shrine damaged by fire overnight in a southern Bosnian village, a popular destination for Roman Catholic pilgrims.…
This generation of bishops, including (left to right) Bishop Earl Fernandes, Archbishop Ronald Hicks and Bishop Andrew Cozzens, were impacted by the culture of the 1980s and the 2000s sex-abuse crisis, as well as the…
Ahead of the 2028 ecclesial assembly for the Synod on Synodality, the Vatican has called on dioceses to provide an assessment of their implementation of synodality. The General Secretariat of the Synod published the document…
A Gospel of Life Disciples + Dwellings (GOLD) resident celebrates his birthday at the St. John Paul II Dwelling in Moore, Oklahoma. From its origins as a Christian work of mercy, the $31 billion hospice…
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone at a Walk for Life event in San Francisco. Pope Leo XIV also appointed Bishop Edward Lohse of Kalamazoo, Michigan, along with canon law experts from Spain, Germany, Poland, and Italy, to…
Families are finding it is increasingly difficult to navigate homeownership. The lack of affordable housing is impacting everything from family formation to participation in parish life.
The peace proposed by Pope Leo XIV is “not abstract, ideological, or naive” but one that “passes through the pain, contradictions, and wounds of the world,” according to Alessandro Banfi, communications director of the Oasis…