Catholic News Service

BERLIN -- German bishops are concerned that a decision guaranteeing German health insurers will pay for pregnant women's blood tests to detect Down syndrome...

SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube’s blocking of a theologian’s talk on the Christian view of sex as a “content violation” raises serious concerns that “religious...

ARLINGTON, Va. -- The topic of transgenderism is discussed routinely in the news, on television shows and in schools. This prevailing ideology -- that a...

WASHINGTON — Launched Aug. 16, the Archdiocese of Washington’s action plan to promote “an integral ecology” includes practical ways that parishes, Catholic schools and...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When Jenna Fesemyer races at the Tokyo Summer Paralympic Games, the students and staff of St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at...

Long Island’s Haitian American community is concerned about friends and relatives affected by the recent earthquake, and people want to help. From her home in...

SAN DIEGO -- Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego urged priests Aug. 11 to "caringly decline" to provide any Catholics who request it...

VATICAN CITY -- U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke has been hospitalized and put on a ventilator less than one week after telling people he...

Numerous organizations, including Catholic agencies, are accepting donations to assist with their emergency response to the Haiti earthquake. Catholic Relief Services: online: crs.org; by...

LES CAYES, Haiti  -- The magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Haiti collapsed the bishop's residence in Les Cayes, killing one priest, leaving one missing...