In a special Mass closing a two-day high-profile meeting of cardinals at the Vatican, Pope Francis told the prelates they should be in constant wonder of God, and share in his commission to spread the Gospel throughout the world.

As a student at St. Mary Interparochial School in Philadelphia, she struggled to keep up in class. Her world was falling silent, due to a progressive disease that attacked her auditory nerves.

Holding a wooden flute, Larry Martin stood during a recent Mass and welcomed the congregation to join the responsorial psalm. He began: "Aw ge-chi-twaaa-wen-daa-go-zid, Gi-gi-zhe-ma-ni-doo-mi-nann."

Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, said he continues to have confidence in the Synodal Path of the Catholic Church in Germany.

Bishop John Baptist Ye Ronghua, who led the reconstruction of the Catholic Church in northwestern China's Ankang area, died at age 91.

An uneasy calm prevails in Kenya as the country's Supreme Court promises to issue a verdict on Monday regarding the disputed 9 August Presidential election, which has been challenged by a number of political coalitions. The country's religious leaders are calling for calm and express optimism the truth will prevail.

In response to polemics that have arisen in recent days concerning the words of Pope Francis, a communiqué from the Holy See cites the Pope’s “numerous” interventions concerning the war, and recalls that he has always condemned the Russian aggression as “morally unjust, unacceptable, barbaric, senseless, repugnant, and sacrilegious.”

Este 30 de agosto se conmemora el Día Internacional de las víctimas de las desapariciones forzadas. Un problema mundial que no afecta únicamente a una región concreta del mundo, que surgió como producto de las dictaduras militares, y que hoy en día pueden darse como consecuencia de conflictos internos, conflictos armados, violencia social, estatal y la migración. América Latina engloba 6 de los 10 países con mayor cantidad de desapariciones forzadas.

La Conferencia Episcopal Argentina (CEA) emitió un comunicado en acción de gracias por la próxima canonización de Zatti, un enfermero y religioso salesiano ítalo-argentino, que se efectuará el domingo 9 de octubre de 2022.

En el Sacro Convento de Asís se celebrará del 2 al 4 de septiembre la iniciativa el Patio de Francisco, con más de 30 encuentros, espectáculos artísticos, talleres creativos y visitas guiadas exclusivas

En una carta dirigida a los Obispos italianos que viven en las zonas "internas", el Papa Francisco recuerda que en la Iglesia hay espacio para todos, que es importante hacer siempre gestos de atención a la vida, al trabajo y a las familias. Comienza hoy en Benevento el congreso organizado por la Conferencia Episcopal Italiana.

Un comunicado responde a la polémica surgida por las palabras de Francisco en los últimos días, cita las "numerosas" intervenciones del Pontífice sobre la guerra y recuerda que siempre ha condenado la agresión rusa como "moralmente injusta, inaceptable, bárbara, insensata, repugnante y sacrílega".

East Timor’s new and first-ever cardinal has said his small nation, one of just two Catholic majority countries in Asia and located in the shadow of the world’s largest Muslim nation, is still longing for a papal visit after one was postponed due to the coronavirus.

A group of Discalced Carmelite sisters issued a statement with their reflections on the new constitution being put to a plebiscite, provoking reactions within the church, including other nuns.

Minnesota pro-life leaders denounced a consumer alert issued by Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison criticizing the state's crisis pregnancy centers.

Violence against Indigenous peoples in Brazil grew in 2021, reaching its highest level since 2013, according to an agency of the bishops’ conference.

Under a white tent on the street outside Our Lady of the Angels on a recent Sunday, Father Adrián Vázquez led parishioners seated in pews and plastic chairs in celebrating 10 o’clock Mass, flanked by piles of rubble from the sanctuary left there by a deadly earthquake nearly five years ago.

The Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh, Eamon Martin, reflects in his homily on Sunday on the upcoming Season of Creation, which runs from 1 September to 4 October.

In a message for the upcoming Season of Creation, Albanian Archbishop Angelo Massafra of Shkodër-Pult, a member of the Pastoral Social Care Commission of the Council of Bishops' Conferences of Europe (CCEE), echoes Pope Francis’ call for an ecological conversion, recalling that the current climate crisis is mainly attributable to the actions of man.