IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Billy Hinnenkamp By Joe Ruff ST. PAUL, Minn. (CNS) -- For years, Annie Hinnenkamp of St. John the Baptist in New Brighton wanted to walk the Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Jacob Comello WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Waves of eager chatter filled the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Then, a triumphant...
IMAGE: CNS/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Claiming a lack of support for open dialogue and for an editorial line run by women, the director and editorial staff...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In indigenous Kichwa communities, women like Patricia Gualinga have traditionally taken on the role of wife, mother and cultivator...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Santiago By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a Chilean cardinal who has faced widespread criticism for...
By Catholic News Agency | CHICAGO — Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago has spoken out against a pair of Illinois abortion bills, calling them a radical and disturbing movement away from the common...
By Joan Desmond | Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, the Vatican diplomat who helped secure the September 2018 provisional accord between the Holy See and China that formalized rules for appointing...
By Steven D. Greydanus | See also: It’s Complicated: Islam and violence | The problem of evil Not long ago I got two converging questions from two divergent points of view, one from a...
By Kevin Di Camillo | If one were to line up the Novus Ordo Mass with the Latin (“Extraordinary Form”) Mass—and I’ve no doubt that countless liturgists on both sides have done this ad nauseum—one...
By Father John P. Cush | One of the joys I have in my life as a priest who is assigned as a formator and as a theology professor is learning from my students. This semester, I am blessed to offer two...
Pope Francis made a surprise, early morning stop to offer a Lenten reflection for university students, encouraging them to build up their immunity against individualism with the Gospel.
Pope Francis has made it easier for a religious order to dismiss a member who leaves the community without permission, stays away and does not communicate with his or her superior.
The founder and all-female editorial board of the Vatican's women's magazine have quit after what they say was a Vatican campaign to discredit them and put them "under the direct control of men,&
The Vatican official who negotiated a landmark agreement between the Holy See and China on bishop nominations said Monday that the path to normalizing Catholic life in the country "is still long&
During a visit to the Italian city of Loreto on Monday, Pope Francis signed a new document dedicated to the youth and called on people to remember the importance of the family for society.