On the same day dioceses around the world inaugurated the Jubilee Year, meant to be a time of hope amid a world of ...

Jorge Mario Bergoglio was 17 years old when he first received his vocation to become a priest. It happened on Sept. 21, 1953 ...

Human trafficking does not occur in a vacuum, Bishop Senior noted, but rather stems from issues and crises including ...

Retired Cardinal Jean Pierre Kutwa of Abidjan was appointed apostolic administrator of Man, western Ivory Coast, and tasked ...

A plenary indulgence is remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.

Pope Francis on December 24 inaugurated the 2025 Holy Year, reviving an ancient church tradition encouraging the faithful to make pilgrimages to Rome. One of the symbolic images of every Jubilee is ...

A Walworth County judge declined to dismiss the case against Theodore McCarrick but agreed to continue the suspension until the defendant dies.

Bishop András Veres emphasised in a coldly worded statement that collective prayer and fasting were more important than ...

A look at news events in June 2024. 1 - Israel's government says its conditions for ending the war with Hamas have not ...

Bishop Roberto Calara Mallari, 61, will succeed the late Bishop Enrique Macaraeg to become the fourth bishop of the ...

Pope Francis ushered in the New Year with an appeal for the faithful to reject abortion, calling for a “firm commitment” to ...

Pope Francis has appointed Bishop Roberto Mallari to up the vacancy in the Diocese of Tarlac, according to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. Mallari, 66, will be the fourth ...