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"Become a beggar. That's what is lacking, learning to beg from those to whom we give," Pope Francis told youths when he visited the...

By RICHARD DOERFLINGER The Senate debate over a new U.S. Supreme Court nomination has revived an older debate: whether that court should overrule its 1973...

By JOHN GARVEY The news of ex-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick's crimes is deeply troubling for two reasons. The first is that it is a serious blow...

OXFORD, England — The Rwandan Catholic bishops’ conference urged the government of President Paul Kagame to preserve religious rights after government officials closed thousands...

OMAHA, Neb. — The state of Nebraska Aug. 14 executed its first death-row prisoner in 21 years, convicted murderer Cary Dean Moore, who was...

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Aug. 16 announced three key goals and a comprehensive plan to address...

By GREG ERLANDSON WASHINGTON -- When Catholic News Service posted a short video of the Pennsylvania attorney general's Aug. 14 news conference announcing a grand...

WATERBURY, Conn. — More than 1,000 people gathered in the rain on top of Holy Land USA as Archbishop Leonard P. Blair of Hartford...

WASHINGTON -- Here is the text of a June 17, 2015, letter written by Father Boniface Ramsey, administrator of a parish in the New...

LIMA, Peru -- A Spanish Jesuit priest who was found murdered in the boarding school where he lived was buried Aug. 12 in Chiriaco,...