The U.S. bishops wrapped up the second day of public sessions for their annual fall assembly in Baltimore with a focus on ...

Christian martyrs from across denominations hold a place of honor in the Church, Pope Francis said, highlighting their ...

Pope Francis met with a group of Israelis and their family members who were freed after being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas ...

On the first day of the public session of the U.S. bishops’ annual fall meeting in Baltimore, the importance of the Church’s ...

Economic concerns among voters likely played a key role in former President Donald Trump’s defeat of Vice President Kamala ...

The U.S. bishops’ annual fall assembly in Baltimore saw the shepherds of the Catholic Church in this country make intentional steps toward integrating their work with the synodal missionary style ...

Voters in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota Nov. 5 rejected amendments to their state constitutions that would have codified ...

(This column is part of “The Light of Faith and Care at the Sunset of Life,” a series on the Catholic Standard website and newspaper on the Catholic response to end-of-life issues. This series is done ...

Q: What scriptural basis is there for praying for the dead, for their repose, or for praying to the dead, for their intercessions? And in a related way, what scriptural basis is there for the Catholic ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, an openness that allowed her to say “yes” to God’s plan for the salvation of the world, Pope Francis said.

Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Communion, resigned Nov. 12 due to failures in dealing with a British abuse case. “It is very clear that I must take personal and ...