ROME – Since the beginning of his pontificate, Pope Francis has gone out of his way to push the concept of “discernment” – a much-beloved process in Jesuit spirituality – as key to the spiritual life, yet according to one expert, while the term is used often, not many people actually know what this means.(Credit: Pixabay.)

La Conferencia episcopal de México invita a rezar por el éxito y seguridad de la visita de Nuncio Franco Coppola a una de las ciudades históricas de Michoacán pero también una de las más golpeadas por la inseguridad y la violencia.

Ante la inminente Beatificación de los 10 mártires asesinados por "odio a la fe" en Guatemala, Monseñor Rosolino Bianchetti, obispo de la Diócesis de Quiché, explica de qué manera el sacrificio de estos hombres inspira a construir un país reconciliado y unido ante las "nuevas amenazas" de nuestro tiempo como "la pobreza, la explotación y la migración forzada".

On Friday, three priests and seven lay people who were killed for their faith in Guatemala become "blesseds". Bishop Rosolino Bianchetti of Quiché recalls their example of courage and faith in an interview with Vatican News, highlighting that it is a source of inspiration for the people of Guatemala.

Las palabras del Papa en un telegrama firmado por el Cardenal Pietro Parolin. Las autoridades del Estado de San Vicente y las Granadinas, en las Antillas Menores, han ordenado la evacuación de parte de la isla para evitar una catástrofe humanitaria.

BONN, Germany (CNS) -- Thomas Sternberg, 69, president of the Central Committee of German Catholics, announced April 23 he will not seek reelection to the post in November.

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Después de un año sin peregrinos, turistas, y estudiantes universitarios de Estados Unidos, algunos estadounidenses que vivían en Roma han hecho las maletas y han regresado a casa.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As La Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent continued erupting, belching out gas and thick ash, which forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people, Pope Francis offered his prayers.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Even as the COVID-19 pandemic continued, members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors remained active in promoting outreach and providing new educational opportunities.

QUEBEC CITY (CNS) -- Police have seized large quantities of altar wine in the province of Quebec, creating a situation where buying a bottle is nearly impossible.

LANDSKRONA, Sweden (CNS) -- After making the arduous trek from his native Eritrea to the coastal town of Sundsvall, Sweden, in 2014, Solomon Tesfay dreamed of a better life for himself, his wife and three children.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Celebrating his name day, the feast of St. George, Pope Francis was serenaded by hundreds of Rome's most vulnerable residents and the people who assist them.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Biden administration has filed an appeal April 20 of a Jan. 19 federal court's ruling to block an Affordable Care Act provision barring discrimination by health insurers and providers against transgender people.

This conviction is evidence of another step towards racial justice, a justice long overdue, “a promised land” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hoped for.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CNS) -- Teresa Pitt Green, who as a child was sexually abused by Catholic priests, said she is convinced "there's a lot more hope than people dare to feel."

MEXICO CITY (CNS) -- Migrants arriving in Ciudad Juárez in recent years have remained stuck in the Mexican border city, unable to claim asylum in the United States and vulnerable to crimes such as kidnapping, robbery and extortion.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When it comes to safeguarding creation, there is no time to waste -- humanity either must live up to its responsibility or continue on a path of self-destruction, Pope Francis said, commemorating Earth Day with a video message.

NEW DELHI (CNS) -- An oxygen leak at a government hospital in India has killed 22 COVID-19 patients as the entire country faces a huge shortage of oxygen to support pandemic-hit patients.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis welcomed Lebanon's designated prime minister, Saad Hariri, to the Vatican April 22 and expressed his hope that the country's politicians would work together for the good of the nation.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Sometimes the Catholic Church has "proposed a far too abstract and almost artificial theological ideal of marriage, far removed from the concrete situations and practical possibilities of real families," Pope Francis wrote in his 2016 exhortation, "Amoris Laetitia."