Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

ROME -- Marked with ashes, Christians set off on a Lenten journey where they strive to leave behind everything that will turn to dust...

VATICAN CITY -- What makes a politician "Catholic" is not party affiliation, but dedication to promoting the common good, particularly through listening to and...

ROME -- Lent is a good time to concentrate on fighting the urge to gossip about others and instead trying to correct one's own...

VATICAN CITY — Just a few days after the Vatican summit on child protection and clerical sexual abuse, the bishops' conference and major religious...

VATICAN CITY -- The day Australian Cardinal George Pell was jailed in Melbourne after being found guilty of child sexual abuse, the Vatican announced...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican summit on child protection and the clerical sexual abuse crisis affirmed the U.S. bishops' strong belief that bishops and...

VATICAN CITY -- In an opulent Vatican room designed in the 16th century for papal meetings with kings, a cardinal read, "We confess that...

VATICAN CITY -- The Catholic Church needs "new legal structures of accountability" for bishops accused of sexual abuse or of negligence in handling abuse...

VATICAN CITY -- Twisted ideas of power and authority in the Catholic Church have contributed to the clerical sexual abuse crisis, leaders of religious...

VATICAN CITY -- When presented with an accusation that a priest has sexually abused a child, "whether it's criminal or malicious complicity and a...