On Sunday afternoon, Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley, President of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, addressed participants in “Our Common Mission of Safeguarding God’s Children”, a regional conference on the protection of minors for Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the pastoral conversion necessary. What follows is an excerpt of his opening remarks.

In a discourse to the faithful of the Diocese of Rome, Pope Francis describes the Synodal process due to begin in October and the importance of the diocese as the Church works together to feel part of “one great people”.

Ahead of a UN Summit on food systems to be held in New York later this week, Caritas Switzerland is calling for the food we eat to be more climate-friendly.

The Governorate of Vatican City State issues a decree stipulating added measures to be taken as part of efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 within Vatican City State.

Young Catholics call for more solidarity and fraternity in Europe. COMECE President, Cardinal Hollerich, reminds them that they are the future but they are also “Europe now”

The Slovak faithful are encouraged to give generously in a charity collection to be taken up on 26 September for the brothers and sisters in need in Cuba, as part of the fruits of the recently-concluded Apostolic Visit of Pope Francis to Slovakia.

Church representatives from Central and Eastern Europe wrap up the second day of a safeguarding conference in Warsaw, which seeks to turn the pain endured by survivors of clerical sexual abuse into the seeds of a more faithful Church.

Pope Francis urged bishops from throughout Eastern Europe to recognize mistakes in their handling of sexual abuse in order to open "new horizons of love and reciprocal service."

A mediados de septiembre, la administración de Joe Biden decidió reiniciar y expandir un programa de inmigración destinado a reunir a padres inmigrantes, que se encuentran en Estados Unidos, con sus hijos que quedaron atrás en Centroamérica.

Visitors, tourists and employees who want to enter Vatican territory will be required beginning Oct. 1 to show proof of vaccination, recovery from the coronavirus or a negative COVID-19 test.

En la opinión de Dios, la grandeza humana se mide por cómo se sirve o se ayuda a alguien que no puede ofrecer nada a cambio, dijo el papa Francisco.

In an address at the University of Notre Dame Sept. 16, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke about being personally grounded by his Catholic faith -- which he said he "ran away from" when he was young and "crawled back" to 25 years later.

Syriac Catholic bishops, meeting in Lebanon for the first time since 2019 because of the pandemic, called on governments in the Middle East to work "to stop wars and renounce the logic of sectarianism and racism."

To listen to the Holy Spirit, members of the church must listen to each other and especially to those who are marginalized, Pope Francis said, explaining how dioceses are to help the church prepare for the Synod of Bishops.

In God's view, human greatness is measured by how one serves or helps someone who cannot offer anything in exchange, Pope Francis said.

As thousands of migrants congregate underneath the Del Rio International Bridge, the Archbishop of San Antonio says the archdiocese will help however possible, but he fears an already overwhelming situation for the border city will get worse.

El fundador y presidente de "SOS Il Telefono Azzurro", quien también es uno de los miembros de la Comisión Pontificia para la Protección de los Menores, explica los objetivos y los retos de la Conferencia para las Iglesias de Europa Central y Oriental, prevista del 19 al 22 de septiembre: "Importante trabajo sobre el mundo digital, los jóvenes son atraídos por los modelos que desvían", afirma.

Monseñor Stanislav Zvolenský, presidente de la Conferencia Episcopal Eslovaca, repasa las etapas y los significados más fuertes de la reciente visita del Papa

El Santo Padre Francisco recibió hoy en audiencia en el Vaticano a los responsables de las Comisiones de Catequesis de las Conferencias Episcopales Europeas. En su discurso el Papa agradeció a los catequistas por su gran labor de evangelización y los animó a recordar sin cansarse el anuncio que se convierte en el corazón de la catequesis: "¡Jesucristo resucitado te ama y nunca te abandona!"

Three sex abuse lawsuits filed against a New Jersey diocese and announced Thursday include claims that defrocked Cardinal Theodore McCarrick abused a young man in the 1980s.