Catholic News Service

PRAGUE — Calling former Czech President Vaclav Havel a “friend and fellow prisoner," the president of the Czech bishops' conference said the entire nation...

As Christmas-season attractions go, the animation and live-action blend "Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked" (Fox) is kind of a stale cookie. In this third outing...

CAGAYAN DE ORO, Philippines -- Church agencies teamed with international aid groups and the Philippine government to assist tens of thousands of people left...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A report on a Dutch inquiry said “several tens of thousands of minors” were sexually abused by Catholic Church personnel...

As pretentiously droll as it is condescending, "Young Adult" (Paramount) shows small-town Minnesota life dominated by chain restaurants, a good deal of alcohol abuse,...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota's Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board has dismissed a complaint stemming from a DVD on marriage mailed to 400,000...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly, who led the Archdiocese of Louisville from 1982 until his retirement in 2007, died peacefully in his...

DARBY, Pa. — U.S. Cardinal John P. Foley, who spent more than two decades leading the church's social communications council and later worked for...

PHOENIX — A Mercy sister who was automatically excommunicated because of her role on the ethics committee that allowed an abortion to be performed...

HAVANA — The Cuban bishops announced that 2012 would be a Marian jubilee year and that Pope Benedict XVI would come to Cuba as...