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A little-publicized event with not-so-little significance took place recently in St. Louis. At a Catholic church near downtown, Cardinal Raymond Burke said the traditional Latin Mass on a Saturday morning [...]

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich says Pope Francis is calling the global Catholic Church to make 'an enormous change of approach' in how it relates to families and to renounce heavy-handed [...]

Jan. 31, 2015, would have marked the 100th birthday of the American Trappist monk and author Thomas Merton. But having died suddenly in Thailand on Dec. 10, 1968, while overseas [...]

VATICAN CITY * One of the six members of Pope Francis' advisory Council of Cardinals has acknowledged a bias among the members of the Catholic Church's all-male hierarchy against giving [...]

In 1845 a middle-aged Oxford vicar, after a long period of agonising, decided to become a Roman Catholic. From the perspective of 2019, it is hard to see why this [...]

The long-expected new constitution mapping out the future shape of the Vatican bureaucracy could be published as soon as the end of June, but its most notable features have been [...]

Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo, Sri Lanka, has blamed the country's authorities for security lapses that allowed a series of suicide bombing attacks on Easter Sunday at three churches and [...]

When anyone writes about the idea of a Catholic university today, or any other day out of the last century, there is always the temptation to repeat in substance what [...]

When New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan recently had good things to say about President Donald Trump, you knew it was only a matter of time before 'social justice' leaders [...]

In an arena where, arguably, the most important thing he could do is to encourage charity and an irenic spirit toward various forms of eucharistic piety, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect [...]

Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the pope's almsgiver, climbed down a manhole in Rome on May 11 to restore electric power to a building occupied by some 450 homeless people, including more [...]

CHICAGO * Louis Farrakhan's appearance at a high-profile Chicago Catholic church resulted in condemnations by Jewish leaders and by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich for the Nation of Islam leader's past [...]

ROME * Back in Rome fewer than 24 hours after visiting refugees in camps in Greece, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski turned on some lights and found himself being threatened by Italy's [...]

ROME * The proposed apostolic constitution for reforming and governing the Roman Curia is expected to emphasize the church's missionary mandate with the creation of a 'super-dicastery' merging two offices [...]

BANGKOK * Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo, Sri Lanka, has blamed the country's authorities for the lapse in security that he claims could have prevented Easter bombings, in which the [...]

According to a February 3 article in the Vatican newspaper L' Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis has urged Chinese Catholic leaders 'to renew their total adherence to Christ and the Church,' [...]

Jesuit Fr. Samuel Rayan, a pioneer of theology with an Asian perspective that colleagues and church leaders considered a 'radical interpretation of the Bible,' died at age 98. Rayan became [...]

Investigators for the district attorney of Montgomery County in Texas executed a search warrant seeking records pertaining to the handling of abuse allegations at the offices of the Archdiocese of [...]

Three American bishops inducted into the church's most exclusive club--the College of Cardinals--say that the division and polarization present in civil society is infecting the church and that it must [...]

WASHINGTON * The U.S. bishops' pro-life chairman praised the Trump administration's move to reinstate Reagan-era regulations banning any family planning clinic that receives Title X federal funds from making abortion [...]

SANTIAGO, CHILE * Cardinal Francisco Errazuriz Ossa, retired archbishop of Santiago, blamed some of the poor press coverage of the papal visit to his country on the actions of Bishop [...]

In an introduction to a new book about Communion practices, Cardinal Robert Sarah, the Vatican's most senior liturgy official, wrote: 'We can understand how the most insidious diabolical attack consists [...]

Arguing that 'the complex realities that couples and families face today are singularly different from those of the past,' Cardinal Blase Cupich urged Catholic leaders to embrace Pope Francis' 'call [...]

Every election reveals the divisions in society,' Cardinal-designate Blase Cupich of Chicago said a few days after American voters elected Donald J. Trump the next president of the United States. [...]

The plight and vulnerability of Lebanon, surrounded by the chaos of Syria on the north and east and threatened by the tensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the south, were [...]

VATICAN CITY * In decentralizing authority from the Vatican to bishops' conferences for the translation of texts for the Catholic liturgies from Latin into local languages, Pope Francis is simply [...]

MANILA, PHILIPPINES * Manila Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has ordered church bells to be rung in that archdiocese every evening starting Sept. 14 to remember the thousands of people killed [...]

Before he died, the former Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, reassured his diocese that he was 'at peace and [has] no fear of what is to come'. But surely, [...]

VATICAN CITY -- One of the members of the Council of Cardinals said the group is considering whether to advise Pope Francis to make it mandatory for Vatican ambassadors to [...]

Standing with those threatened with deportation 'puts a face on people who are frequently dehumanized,' Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, told hundreds of Catholic journalists and media professionals [...]

There has been a brief flurry of news stories speculating about the ideological affinities, or possible political alliance, between Stephen Bannon, the White House's disrupter in chief, and traditionalist Catholic [...]

VATICAN CITY -- After a handful of public challenges to Pope Francis' teaching and authority, the members of the pope's international Council of Cardinals began their February meeting expressing their [...]

China and the Vatican have reached consensus on the appointment of bishops, which will lead to the resolution of other outstanding problems, said Hong Kong Cardinal John Tong. 'From now [...]

ROME -- The head of the Vatican's doctrinal office has expressed disagreement with four cardinals who issued an open letter to Pope Francis questioning the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia. The [...]