By Bezawit Bogale As the Catholic Church enters the season of Lent, Cardinal Abune Berhaneyesus, CM, President of the ...

It is with great joy that I address you on the occasion of the month of Ramadan, which culminates in the Feast of the Breaking of the Fast, Eid Al-Fitr.

Born in 1948 in what was then Czechoslovakia, he converted to Catholicism at the age of 18 and was secretly ordained a priest in communist-controlled East Germany in 1978. Father Halik worked for many ...

Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” argued Tuesday that Pope Francis inadvertently violated the fundamental rights of their clients by issuing four secret decrees that gave ...

The Italian saint’s bones have been put on public display for the first time in 800 years in Assisi ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Defense lawyers in the Vatican’s “trial of the century” argued Tuesday that Pope Francis inadvertently violated the fundamental rights of their clients by issuing four secret ...

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The bones of Italy’s patron saint will be shown to the public for a month, to mark the 800th anniversary of his death.

In the handover between Pope Francis and Pope Leo, one theme stands out as genuinely decisive — perhaps more than is apparent to those who focus exclusively on ecclesiastical affairs. At the heart of ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims are expected to pay homage to the remains of the 11th-century saint famous for his love of the natural world.

A traditionalist group of Catholic priests that has been at odds with the Vatican for decades threatened a full schism with Rome this weekend, saying it plans to consecrate bishops without approval ...