Catholic News Service

By PETER FINNEY JR. NEW ORLEANS -- Greg Kandra was a good-enough Catholic, observant and Mass-going, although he admits his wife was by comparison the...

NEW DELHI - Facing child trafficking allegations at one of its homes for unmarried mothers in India, the Missionaries of Charity said the order...

Perhaps the most surprising thing about the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" 50 years on, is how reports of its imminent death were continually exaggerated. Very...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- As attacks on Catholic clergy continue and anti-government protesters are besieged by Nicaraguan police and paramilitaries, the bishops said they would...

EMMITSBURG, Md. -- Counting on her fingers to keep track of points in an ice-breaker game she was playing with a young woman at...

I stood at the desk in my college apartment, holding a box of birth control pills. As I read the instructions, the lengthy list...

The Catholic Church's teaching on responsible parenthood is often overlooked, or simply unknown. Pope Francis memorably countered popular misconceptions about the church's sexual teaching in...

Fifty years after its promulgation, the encyclical "Humanae Vitae" has been labeled "prophetic." Pope Paul VI understood that the quality of marital and parental love...

COALVILLE, England -- Cistercian monks have opened the first Trappist brewery in England and are selling thousands of bottles of beer every day. The monks...

WASHINGTON -- Judge Brett Kavanaugh is a pretty good guy, according to Msgr. John Enzler, his former pastor and the current president and CEO...