Thousands of Catholics across the country will unite in prayer for pregnant and parenting moms in need during an April 19-27 novena inspired by St. Gianna Beretta Molla, an It ...

On the 50th anniversary of when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and left close to 2 million people dead, the Catholic Church there, still a fledgling minority, is making strides, ...

Especially in a Jubilee Year, but also every day, priests are called to continual conversion so that they can authentically preach the good news of hope, Pope Francis wrote in th ...

The Gospel contains a great message of hope, "because it tells us that wherever we are lost and however we are lost, God always comes looking for us!" said the text for Pope Francis' weekly general ...

As legislators in multiple states seek to advance so-called "medical aid in dying" laws, a Catholic ethicist warned the practice was contrary to both Catholic teaching and American ideals. Supporters ...

Pope Francis personally thanked the health care workers and medical staff who cared for him in Rome's Gemelli hospital for 38 days while he recovered from respiratory infections.

Baptism frees us from the guilt -- sometimes poetically referred to as the "stain" -- of original sin.

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Llevar la cruz significa más que soportar el sufrimiento personal: significa entrar en el dolor de los demás y caminar a su lado, escribió el Papa Francisco ...

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- El 10 de abril, los obispos de EE.UU. dijeron a los legisladores del Congreso que apoyan la legislación bipartidista que aliviaría algunas restricciones de migraci&# ...

Pope Francis has ordered the suppression of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a Peru-based lay movement active across Latin America and the United States, and three related lay m ...

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Antoni Gaudí, the Spanish architect who ...

Catholic and other religious leaders are condemning a Palm Sunday attack by Russia on a Ukrainian city that killed 34 -- including two children -- and injured 119.