One of the Vatican’s top officials on the migration issue has said strict policies increase the risk of human trafficking, as the lack of safe and legal passages force many people to take more...
Only about half of the national bishops' conferences in the world have adopted complete, Vatican-approved guidelines for handling accusations of clerical sexual abuse and promoting child protection...
When Pope Francis visits Abu Dhabi Feb. 3-5, he will visit a land where interreligious tolerance is mandated by law; while Catholics in the United Arab Emirates count their blessings for that, the...
In two new documents on migration and human trafficking, the Vatican has emphasized the need to protect migrants and step up international collaboration and prosecutions of traffickers, while also...
A few decades of respectful Catholic-Jewish dialogue pale in comparison to "19 centuries of Christian anti-Judaism," Pope Francis said, so Catholics must continue to ask forgiveness and...
By Angelo Stagnaro | Following up on my recent list of 13 things for Christians to do to evangelize the world, here are 14 more ways to bring Christ to the world: 1. Stand up for Christianity. Stand...
By Kathy Schiffer | Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the nonviolent Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and '60s, helped Americans to understand that while obedience to the law is important...
By Jim Graves | LOS ANGELES — An estimated 15,000 Southern Californians gathered Saturday in downtown Los Angeles for the fifth-annual OneLife LA, an Archdiocese of Los Angeles event designed “to...
By K.V. Turley | Coming in this 50th anniversary year of Humane Vitae a new documentary Sexual Revolution: 50 Years Since Humanae Vitae examines the encyclical’s continuing prophetic witness and...
By Sabrina Ferrisi | PANAMA CITY — Mary’s unequivocal “Yes” to God’s calling is being held up as the guiding inspiration for this month’s World Youth Day in Panama — as the gathering’s theme is taken.