Catholic News Service

SOFIA, Bulgaria  -- Bulgaria's predominant Orthodox Church has ordered its clergy not to take part in prayers or services with Pope Francis when he...

MEXICO CITY -- A Nicaraguan bishop said he will leave the country indefinitely as concerns for his security increase -- presumably the product of...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill that would make it illegal to carry out an abortion once a fetal heartbeat...

The number of executions worldwide has dropped by almost one-third, Amnesty International said in its latest review of the death penalty. At least 690 people...

ASUNCION, Paraguay — It does not matter if it is in a demonstration against the International Monetary Fund or to support a small displaced...

Holy Week invites us to walk through the sufferings of Christ. Christ said very little when he was betrayed. He did not attempt to...

VATICAN CITY -- U.S. Cardinal Edwin F. O'Brien, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, celebrated his 80th birthday...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Baseball is back for the spring and Bishop Dennis J. Sullivan of Camden didn't hesitate to remind the 800 people...

WASHINGTON -- From the 17th-century ban by the Vatican of Copernicus' mathematical calculation that the sun was at the center of the solar system...

By CAROLYN WOO At a cafe in Chicago, I was chatting with a British former journalist and economist who is currently director of social responsibility...