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

On Oct. 16, 1978, the cardinal electors of the Roman Catholic Church elected Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla to sit on the ...

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

The 14 soon-to-be saints each exemplified heroic virtue and witnessed to holiness within their unique vocations, including ...

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

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That, in turn, would give Vatican diplomacy a place at the table in discussions about the world’s future with a potential ...

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 ...

These assumptions are planted like seeds and repeated just often enough by a handful of synod delegates, lobby groups, the ...

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 ...