Catholic News Service
SAO PAULO — At the beginning of March, Gisela Gomez, 36, gathered a few belongings, said goodbye to her 17- and 15-year-old sons, and left the region of Monagas in Venezuela, traveling more than 600 miles south...
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Statistics gathered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services indicate 11.5 million people misused prescription opioids in 2016.
Some of those people serve the church.
Individuals associated with Guest House, a nonprofit, health care provider...
MEXICO CITY -- A Mexico priest has been stabbed to death in his parish, the latest attack on clergy in the heavily Catholic country.
Father Ruben Alcantara Diaz was attacked April 18, just prior to the 7 p.m. Mass at...
WASHINGTON -- Tributes from business leaders and politicians alike described Jennifer Riordan -- the 43-year-old passenger who died April 17 from injuries suffered on Southwest Flight 1380 when its engine exploded -- as a devoted mother, community leader, mentor...
VATICAN CITY — When Pope Francis insisted that the lives of the unborn and of the poor are “equally sacred,” he was not trying to shift the focus of Catholics from fighting abortion to fighting poverty, he was trying...
WILMINGTON — Father Nicholas R. Waseline, an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales who was the pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Wilmington, died April 18 at St. Francis Hospital after a long battle with pancreatic cancer....
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Cycle B
1) Acts 4:8-12
Psalm 118:1, 8-9, 21-23, 26-29
2) 1 Jn 3:1-2
Gospel: Jn 10:11-18
A good shepherd
Deep below the Eternal City, Rome, lie several early Christian images of Jesus. One remarkable third-century fresco discovered in the Roman catacomb...
WASHINGTON -- Sometimes the best opportunities result from a mix of asking and having things fall into your lap.
So it was for William Friedkin, who directed "The Exorcist" 45 years ago and thought he was through with the subgenre...
JERUSALEM — Three generations of the Razzouk family busily attended to Christian pilgrims and tourists packed into a tiny shop to get Christian tattoos to mark their pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
The Razzouk family has been tattooing Christian pilgrims...
AMMAN, Jordan -- Caritas Syria said the recent massive missile strikes by the United States, Britain and France, intended to weaken Syria's chemical weapons capability, have not hindered its assistance to the country's poor and internally displaced.
"We have enough...