Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON -- The 1919 "Bishops' Program for Social Reconstruction" was showcased in this year's Labor Day statement to demonstrate how so many of the...

TRENTON, N.J. -- A New Jersey state appeals court allowed a new law permitting assisted suicide to continue, overturning a lower court decision that...

VATICAN CITY — At a time when conflict and division dominate the world’s headlines, people need to know there are a growing number of...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Sustainability is a lesson that even the leader of a green-minded school admits she is learning. Students at St. Agnes School in...

WASHINGTON -- Authorities have arrested a 56-year-old priest from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who is facing accusations that he stole more than $98,000 from...

The Catholic Church is the largest global humanitarian network with enormous potential, and therefore responsibility, to address human suffering and complex global challenges. It...

By RICHARD DOERFLINGER "You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts." This observation, attributed to Democratic politician...

WHEELING, W.Va. -- People from around the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston already have a good feeling about their new shepherd, Bishop Mark E. Brennan, who...

WASHINGTON — A globetrotting warrior for life and human dignity has taken up a new gauntlet as president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center,...

MELBOURNE, Australia -- An Australian appeals court upheld the conviction of Cardinal George Pell on five counts of sexually assaulting two choirboys more than...