" states the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, which the Catholic Church uses at Mass. The Church encourages priests ...

Looking back at her experience, Ford felt called to help women who found themselves in these situations, not sure where to go ...

"We need to continue to pray and work to change hearts," Bishop Conley said at the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil ...

Two sisters who were abused by a former priest have called on the Catholic Church to ensure every diocese in Ireland is proactive in providing opportunities for direct engagement between abuse ...

In 2020, Pope Francis appointed me, together with Deacon James Keating, Catherine Brown Tkacz and eight others, to serve on the second Papal Commission on Women and the Diaconate. The invitation was ...

COMMENTARY: When I came back to Catholicism, I realized that the most amazing choice ever made was God’s decision to enter our world as an unborn baby. This miracle forever established the ...

Jan. 22 is also observed by Catholics in the U.S. as the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children. The date recalls the U.S. Supreme Court’s Jan. 22, 1973, decisions in Roe v. Wade ...

OKECHUKWU OBETA, who covered the burial of three brothers who were consumed by the fire that ravaged the Great Nigeria ...

Rodi Alvarado Pena cleans houses for a living, thinks about her two children in Guatemala and waits. For six years she has been in the United States seeking asylum, watching her case go back and forth ...

Mary, here sleeping as St. Joseph cradles the infant Jesus in a stained-glass window at St. Patrick Church in Smithtown, N.Y., knew what she was in for when she accepted God’s call for her divine ...