Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate has confirmed Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Catholic, to be the new U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom in...

OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) -- She entered religious life thinking skills she'd learned on the soccer field, and volleyball, basketball and tennis courts, would have...

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston called for prayers for the victims killed and injured in a pair of school shootings...

The sacrament of reconciliation isn't about God condemning us for our sins, nor is it about the priest; rather, it's an invitation to be healed...

As a child I always disliked going to the dentist. As an adult, I can't say I'm excited to go to the dentist, but...

WASHINGTON -- Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston called for prayers for the victims killed and injured in a pair of school shootings in...

KINSHASA, Congo -- Security forces in Congo violently dispersed protesters who were demanding that President Joseph Kabila hold fresh elections. A spokesman for the U.N....

"He said to them, 'I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer, for, I tell you, I shall not...

It was Sunday morning in the village of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, and I was concelebrating Mass with the pastor. Almost all those at the Mass...

Any discussion of the Eucharist as a sacrament has to address more than the reception of the Lord in Communion. It begins with understanding the...