"The synod is wrestling with how to permit pastoral differences between the churches while guaranteeing the pope's authority to maintain unity among the churches," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.

Ehud Olmert, who served as the Israeli prime minister from 2006 to 2009, and Nasser al-Kidwa, the Palestinian foreign ...

The Diocese of Providence is inviting the community to a farewell Mass for Archbishop Richard Henning, who will be leaving ...

The Chinese government’s persecution of the Chinese Catholic Church is targeted against the hierarchs who resist Chinese ...

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The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has agreed to pay $880 million to settle claims of clergy sexual abuse, marking the largest settlement of its kind with a Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.

In a move which tightens a previous 2004 surrogacy ban, Italy has officially banned its citizens from seeking surrogates ...

In a letter to Catholics in the Middle East on the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel, Pope Francis ...

The decentralization of certain aspects of the Catholic Church's governance, as proposed in the Synod of Bishops on ...

A historically Catholic country, since the 1950s Belgium has seen a significant decline in the number of its practicing ...

An Italian publisher announced the global release in January of "Hope," a book it described as Pope Francis' autobiography, ...

Italian lawmakers passed a law on Wednesday making it illegal for couples to travel to the United States and other countries ...