Catholic News Service

NOTRE DAME, Ind.  -- The annual University of Notre Dame forum on topics of importance began its 2019-20 season with the difficult issue of...

By RICHARD DOERFLINGER Should doctors and nurses be forced to take part in procedures that violate their conscience? It’s a timely question. New federal regulations...

VATICAN CITY -- Robots making human workers obsolete and artificially intelligent computers wreaking havoc on democratic debates are just some of the threats humanity...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, who died Sept. 26 in Rome, is well-known as the retired head of the Vatican's doctrinal congregation,...

SYDNEY — The Australian states of Victoria and Tasmania have become the latest in the country to pass legislation criminalizing priests who fail to...

VATICAN CITY — U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation and retired archbishop of San Francisco and Portland, Ore.,...

BY FATHER KENNETH DOYLE  Q. A friend has just informed me that she is going next month to Medjugorje in Bosnia. She says that the...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico -- Up until July, 30-year-old Ingrid had a successful career as a pharmacist in her native Nicaragua. She owned a home, where...

UNITED NATIONS — President Donald Trump called on world leaders at a Sept. 23 U.N. event on religious freedom to end religious persecution around...

GUATEMALA CITY -- Despite his work in peripheral dioceses, Cardinal-designate Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri of Huehuetenango has been heard throughout the country. "He's worked closely with...