At the end of the feast of All Saints, just before the sunset, Pope Francis celebrated an outdoor Mass at...

Faithful witness: Pope Francis celebrates Mass at the tomb of Blessed John Paul II in St...

Joyful prayers, songs and conversation could be heard along the street as the parish community of St Francis de Sales...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will create his first cardinals during a consistory on February 22, the feast of the Chair...

VATICAN CITY: God never ceases to forgive, offering even the disobedient the chance for eternal life, Pope Francis said. “Even...

THE president of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference called the suicide bomb attack on September 22 at All Saints’ Church,...

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS: Starring Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi. Directed by Paul Greengrass.Reviewed by John P. McCarthy for Catholic News ServiceDOCUDRAMAS tend...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis has authorised a leave of absence for a German bishop at the centre of controversy over...

ST LOUIS: When a record-breaking blizzard shut down much of western South Dakota in early October, the rough weather led...

IRVING, Texas: The mission of the Catholic Church will continue to be centred on Christ, and Catholics must open up...

Pope Francis: “We must defend the rights of this community that is the family.” Photo: CNS...

DUNDALK: US Army Air Corps Corporal Leo Wojciechowski had just unloaded bombs targeting the Blechhammer synthetic oil refinery on the...

Sacred mission: Pope Francis reacts to children as he addresses pilgrims in St Peter’s Square. He...

BALTIMORE: Even after Tom Clancy became an international best-selling novelist whose fans included the likes of President Ronald Reagan, the...

SAINT-LOUP-SUR-AUJON, France: The moment a monstrance bearing the Blessed Sacrament was fixed high over an altar in a convent church...

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England: Janet Hopper said when she started as a novice at the Society of the Sacred Heart,...

POPE Francis and his eight cardinal advisers on Church governance spent much of their first day together discussing reform of...

IN his strongest public words to date on the subject of abortion, Pope Francis affirmed the sacredness of unborn human...

MANY doors have opened the past several decades for women in education and employment, but little has been done to...

IN a lengthy and wide-ranging interview with one of his Jesuit confreres, Pope Francis spoke with characteristic frankness about the...

Monsignor Bernard Podvin OXFORD, England: A spokesman for France’s bishops urged the government to ensure a...

LONDON: Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark joined his voice to those expressing concern that the Crown Prosecution Service decided not...

VATICAN CITY: What God asks of people is too difficult and demanding to do without help from Jesus and Mary,...

Carnage: Flash flooding caused by heavy rains in northern Colorado has left at least three people...

Urging dialogue: Pope Francis.Photo: CNS WRITING in one of Italy’s major secular newspapers, Pope Francis called...