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Mother Mary Lange.

Sainthood cause advances for religious sister, educator who fought racism

Dec 11, 2019

In the race to see who will become the first canonized black American saint, one candidate’s cause has advanced: Mother... Read more

Archbishop Franco Coppola.

Mexico's nuncio offers his email address for abuse reports

Dec 10, 2019

The apostolic nuncio in Mexico, Archbishop Franco Coppola, has said that anyone who wants to report sexual abuse by the... Read more

Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster speaks at the party's general election manifesto launch in Belfast, Nov. 28, 2019.

As general election nears, bishops across UK stress right to life

Dec 10, 2019

Every voter and politician must resist attacks on the right to life, and Catholic politicians must do so as both... Read more

Cars hit during an attack at DC's National Shrine Dec. 10.

DC basilica attack leaves 'Mary's Shrine' shaken, and at prayer

Dec 10, 2019

By Matt Hadro

A violent attack at “Mary’s Shrine” in Washington D.C. on Tuesday shook the community and prompted prayer and solidarity among... Read more

Raffaele Mincione (C) and Carla Maria Orsi Carbone (R) attend the launch of M Industry London and the Art Bag at 51 Berkeley Square on Oct. 3, 2017 in London, England.

Vatican’s investment manager backed company that ‘misled investors’

Dec 10, 2019

By Ed Condon

The Italian businessman responsible for investing millions of Vatican funds owned a stake in an online options trading company fined... Read more

Father Dave Pivonka and Archbishop Bashar Warda pray together at Franciscan University, Dec. 6, 2019.

Franciscan University forms partnership with Iraqi Catholic university

Dec 10, 2019

By Perry West

A Catholic university in the U.S. has partnered with an Iraqi Catholic college to promote opportunities for scholarship, collaboration, and... Read more

Daniel Ibanez embraces Pope Francis.

‘This is Francis:’ A Vatican photographer’s call from the pope

Dec 10, 2019

By Hannah Brockhaus

Imagine that your cell phone rings, and the display says the call is from a “private number.” You expect it... Read more

Pro-life group: Curtailed study on abortion pill reversal is misleading

Dec 10, 2019

A small case study on the safety of the abortion pill reversal procedure that was cut short due to safety... Read more

Cardinal John Henry Newman by Sir John Everett Millais (1881).

St. John Henry Newman’s meditations on the Litany of Loreto

Dec 10, 2019

Morning Star. Mystical Rose. Tower of Ivory. House of Gold. For centuries, Catholics have recited these titles of Mary in... Read more

Bishop Edward Scarfenberger. Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Albany

In scandalized Buffalo diocese, bishop seeks victims’ voices  

Dec 9, 2019

Efforts to recover from clergy sex abuse scandals in Buffalo require listing to victims and others affected by the diocese’s... Read more

View of the Villa 31 slum of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 01 May, 2014. Villa 31 is an illegally built neighborhood in the center of the city.

In Argentina, poverty rate highest in ten years

Dec 9, 2019

The latest report issued by the Argentina Observatory of Social Debt of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina showed that... Read more

Pope Francis blesses nativity scenes near the Vatican Dec. 9, 2019.

Pope Francis blesses 100 nativity scenes near the Vatican

Dec 9, 2019

Pope Francis Monday stopped by the “100 Nativities in the Vatican” display to bless Christmas scenes from all over the... Read more

President Donald Trump.

What do practicing Catholics think about the 2020 election?

Dec 9, 2019

Catholics who say they accept all Church teachings are more likely than other Americans to say they are planning to... Read more

Survey: Americans dissatisfied with bishops’ response to sex abuse crisis

Dec 9, 2019

Americans largely disapprove of the way the U.S. bishops have handled the sex abuse scandal in the U.S. Catholic Church,... Read more

New poll shows how Catholics view the 2020 election

Dec 9, 2019

Less than a year before the 2020 presidential election, a landmark poll of both Catholic and non-Catholic voters found that... Read more

Pope Francis May 15, 2019.

In a de-Christianized world, priests should be pillars of faith, Pope Francis says

Dec 9, 2019

By Hannah Brockhaus

Priests should strive after a strong relationship with Christ, beginning in seminary, in order to be the guides in faith... Read more

Statue of the Immaculate Conception in Rome's Piazza di Spagna Dec. 8, 2019.

Pope Francis' prayer for the Immaculate Conception: 'You never stop loving your children'

Dec 8, 2019

By Hannah Brockhaus

For the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, Pope Francis Sunday venerated a statue of the Virgin Mary located... Read more

Cardinal Luis Tagle.

Cardinal Tagle named head of Vatican evangelization office

Dec 8, 2019

By Hannah Brockhaus

Pope Francis Sunday appointed Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, archbishop of Manila, Philippines, to lead the Congregation for the Evangelization... Read more

The Holy House of Our Lady in the Shrine of Loreto.

How the Church is honoring pilots and the ‘flying’ house of the Virgin Mary

Dec 8, 2019

By Hannah Brockhaus

At first glance, pilots and plane passengers have little in common with the Holy House of Mary in Loreto, Italy.  Read more

Pope Francis prays before Our Lady of Fatima May 13, 2015.

Pope: Mary's Immaculate Conception the start of the fulfillment of God's plan

Dec 8, 2019

By Hannah Brockhaus

With Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception, God was, even before Mary’s birth, putting into motion his plan of salvation for the... Read more