When Pope Francis visits Macedonia and Bulgaria next month, the trip might seem like a throwaway since it won’t generate the major news waves that his other international visits deliver, however, it...
Pope Francis will visit the Balkan nations of Bulgaria and North Macedonia May 5-7, encouraging the nations' small Catholic communities, reaching out to the Orthodox and to Muslims and paying tribute...
On Easter Monday, Pope Francis led thousands of people in St. Peter's Square in praying for the hundreds of people who died or were injured in bomb blasts the previous day in Sri Lanka.
A new “super dicastery” on evangelization might be one of the most significant reforms of the governing structures of the Vatican, according to a new report.
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Kurt Jensen WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Preservation of the family, marriage and the unborn were the main themes of the annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast at the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/John Farmer de la Torre, Catholic Charities of Southern Missouri By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Outside of a week or two in the darkest days of winter, it's always gardening...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz ROME (CNS) -- The proposed apostolic constitution for reforming and governing the Roman Curia is expected to emphasize the church's missionary mandate with the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Athit Perawongmetha, Reuters By COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNS) -- More than 300 people were killed and more than 500 injured in Easter attacks on three churches and three hotels in Sri...
IMAGE: CNS photo/David Agren By David Agren LA RIOJA, Argentina (CNS) -- Bishop Enrique Angelelli Carletti traveled to a rural corner of his diocese in July 1973 to celebrate the feast of San Antonio.