On Friday, the country’s prime minister told the pope that the church had “severely damaged” the public’s trust after sexual ...

Spanish theologian Cristina Inogés argued in a recent document that “Christianity should never have become a religion.” ...

Pope Francis will open a month-long summit of global Catholic leaders on Wednesday but it is likely to defer any decision on ...

The second session of the Synod on Synodality will take place this October as a follow-up to the first session that occurred ...

The Vatican announced it will carry out an apostolic visitation to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, an institution whose ...

At a time like this, are words of hope simply naïve utterances that are in fact wholly lacking in substance? The answer to ...

It was the second time in as many weeks that Francis has been asked about his views on abortion, which remains a ...

Addressing Proposal 1/ERA, Bishop Salvatore R. Matano points out that the proposed amendment to the New York constitution ...

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Pope Francis urged Catholic bishops to be more transparent and aggressive in combatting child sex abuse in the Church during ...

Calling on the world's bishops not to cover up any instance or form of abuse, Pope Francis said the evil of abuse must be ...

Every crisis, including what the Catholic Church can experience when people no longer care about religion or have distanced ...