As the pandemic has "disproportionately affected" predominately Black communities and the Catholic schools that serve them, Congress must provide immediate financial help to families who have chosen these schools for their children's education, said the chairmen of three U.S. bishops' committees.

Sarah Hassan reflects on her experience of becoming internally displaced, ahead of the 106th World Migrant and Refugee Day slated for 27 September.

A Hawaiian Catholic catechist said that St. Damien of Molokai is a “hero” to the Hawaiian people, after a prominent congresswoman claimed the statue honoring him in the U.S. Capitol is part of colonialism and “patriarchy and white supremacist culture.”

The president of Loyola University Maryland announced Friday that the Flannery O'Connor Residence Hall was being renamed, saying, “some of her personal writings reflected a racist perspective.”

New details have emerged about the links between the two Italian businessmen at the center of the Vatican financial scandal.

Hoy jueves 30 de julio se celebra el día mundial contra la trata de personas, instituida por la Onu. Este flagelo es una de las actividades ilegales más lucrativas del mundo, hay 40 millones de víctimas. Entrevista al subsecretario de la Sección Migrantes y Refugiados, Cardenal Michael Czerny.

Las raíces de nuestra vida están en Cristo, en Él está la fuerza para enfrentar los difíciles problemas que nos esperan después de la crisis, en Él está el modelo de cercanía, amor y servicio. Los pensamientos de Francisco sobre la era del Covid-19 se explican en el prefacio del libro "Comunión y esperanza" publicado por la Libreria Editora Vaticana (LEV) del Dicasterio para la Comunicación, redactado por el Cardenal Walter Kasper y el sacerdote alemán Gerge Augustin.

Un sujeto desconocido arrojó un dispositivo explosivo en la Capilla de la Sangre de Cristo en la Catedral de Managua. En declaraciones el Arzobispo de Managua, cardenal Leopoldo Brenes, tras evaluar los daños del acto “terrorista” expresó su dolor, tristeza y repudio.

Líderes religiosos y defensores de los inmigrantes han denunciado el plan de la administración Trump de rechazar solicitudes nuevas para el programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia, conocido como DACA, y limitar las renovaciones de DACA a extensiones de un año en vez de dos.

Human lives and jobs are not the only things threatened by the coronavirus pandemic: In many countries, democracy and efforts to build a more just world also are under attack, said Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits.

As Alicia Nava flipped through family photographs the morning of July 25, she said solemnly from behind a floral print mask, "We were taking precautions." Three weeks before, she was in the hospital battling COVID-19, as were five of her relatives.

The disappearance -- and rumors of the possible death -- of a Chinese Catholic bishop was the subject of a July 30 hearing by Congress' Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.

While the family is now comfortably settled in rural Kansas, it's not where Gayle pictured her life a dozen years ago.