Catholic News Service

DUBLIN -- Under new plans being considered, Irish seminarians would spend most of their time working in parishes rather than in the traditional seminary...

VIENNA  -- The Austrian bishops' conference is the most recent Catholic institution to say it will divest from fossil fuels. Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna,...

WASHINGTON — A new piece of legislation endorsed by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos could put Catholic or other religious schools within reach of...

DUBLIN — An Irish bishop has criticized Catholics who identify as “faith-filled” while spreading fear and mistrust of immigrants, particularly those who are Muslims. Bishop...

MONTREAL — Father Claude Grou, rector of St. Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal, was stabbed during a Mass March 22. The motive for the...

HOUSTON -- Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been discharged from St. Joseph Medical Center...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The attorney general of West Virginia has brought a civil suit against the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston and its former bishop,...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Abby Johnson's life had already become an open book. Soon it also will become a national box office show. "It's not a film...

WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — A Dartmouth College cosmologist and theoretical physicist, who considers himself a religious agnostic even though he has devoted his career...

Tears flowed during a Mass for peace at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 16, one day after terrorist attacked two mosques,...