IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By Rhina Guidos PANAMA CITY (CNS) -- As Pope Francis was arriving in Panama Jan. 23, bishops from the United States wasted no time addressing the sex abuse scandal back...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Junno Arocho Esteves PANAMA CITY (CNS) -- Pilgrims lined the streets of Panama City to welcome Pope Francis to World Youth Day and his first papal visit to Central...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By Rhina Guidos PANAMA CITY (CNS) -- One thing is clear about World Youth Day 2019: This one is not focused on convening great masses of people, or the most influential or...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While the Swiss Guard's halberds and uniforms have remained largely unchanged over the centuries, its ceremonial helmets are now a...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Kaya Taitano, social media via Reuters By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) -- An exchange between Catholic high school students and a Native American tribal leader in Washington Jan.
One of the Vatican’s top officials on the migration issue has said strict policies increase the risk of human trafficking, as the lack of safe and legal passages force many people to take more...
Only about half of the national bishops' conferences in the world have adopted complete, Vatican-approved guidelines for handling accusations of clerical sexual abuse and promoting child protection...
When Pope Francis visits Abu Dhabi Feb. 3-5, he will visit a land where interreligious tolerance is mandated by law; while Catholics in the United Arab Emirates count their blessings for that, the...
In two new documents on migration and human trafficking, the Vatican has emphasized the need to protect migrants and step up international collaboration and prosecutions of traffickers, while also...
A few decades of respectful Catholic-Jewish dialogue pale in comparison to "19 centuries of Christian anti-Judaism," Pope Francis said, so Catholics must continue to ask forgiveness and...
By Msgr. Charles Pope | There comes a time when something is so egregious and boldly sinful that it must be met with strong ecclesial and canonical penalties and remedies. We have certainly seen this...
By Peter Jesserer Smith | In 2009, Benedict XVI declared the Anglican patrimony was a “treasure to be shared” throughout the Universal Church and set up three ordinariates (akin to dioceses) directly...
By Father Raymond J. de Souza | That it happened so quickly and so smoothly does not make it any less remarkable. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, the apostolic administrator of Washington, was not the...
By Kathy Schiffer | Life was bleak for people with leprosy at the Branch Hospital in Kakaako, Oahu, in the mid-1800s. Many were far advanced in the disease – with blinded eyes, parts of faces eaten...
By Fr. George Rutler | The nineteenth-century churchman John Henry Newman has shaped many of my views and how to apply them. With the credit of a second miracle to his intercession, it is likely that...