Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

ROME -- The synod process underway around the world and at the Vatican is inflicting "evident and grave harm" on the Catholic Church, retired...

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican investment office made 32.27 million euros (about $35.2 million) in profit in 2022 and contributed the entire amount to...

VATICAN CITY -- The mostly "silent and hidden" work of the Servants of the Paraclete, a religious order that ministers to priests and religious...

VATICAN CITY -- Emphasizing the responsibility of all Catholics to ensure the church is a safe place, the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis had a 40-minute private meeting at the Vatican with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel. Holding banners calling for the release...

ROME (CNS) -- A week after undergoing abdominal surgery, Pope Francis' recovery is going well enough that his doctors are making plans to discharge...

VATICAN CITY -- A popular blog that closely monitors the Vatican has reported that Pope Francis wants to send envoys to Moscow and Kyiv...

Questioned by the confreres of a Hungarian Jesuit kidnapped with another priest and imprisoned during Argentina's murderous military dictatorship, Pope Francis said, "I did...

VATICAN CITY — Meeting a group of pilgrims from the Italian diocese his father's family came from, Pope Francis said the family "remains a...

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Praising the piety and charity of Hungarian Christians and their commitment to supporting traditional family life, Pope Francis said Christ also...