Sundays spent in nature and a return of year-round meatless Fridays were a few of the ideas floated Nov. 13 at the U.S.

In Italy this year, environmentalists are calling on Pope Francis to stay the execution — so to speak — of a tree towering ...

Human Rights Watch says Israel is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, including massive ...

Pope Francis gestures as he shakes hands with Yelena Troufanov, who was part of a delegation of Israelis who were freed after ...

The delegation was led by the Hostage Family Forum, the Foreign Ministry, Israeli embassies in Rome and the Vatican, the ...

Catholic institutions and individuals have hundreds of millions of dollars to invest but have almost no investment funds ...

(Papal encyclicals all take their title from the first two words of that encyclical.) A few weeks ago, Pope Francis issued ...

ROME — A delegation of former hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their relatives met Thursday with Pope Francis and expressed ...

OPINION- As we faced a presidential election, Pope Francis asked us to have a heart. Writing about the Sacred Heart of Jesus, he used it as a reminder to all of us: We are loved. So many of us ...

For over 40 years, six people from Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, have claimed to see and speak with the ...

The Trump administration offers promise and peril for American Catholic leaders’ top policy concerns, which include abortion ...

Several U.S. Catholic bishops on Wednesday encouraged the church to boldly share Vatican teachings on a range of hot-button ...