Catholic News Service

EMMITSBURG, Md. — They say when one door closes, another door opens. When the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg closed its...

MANCHESTER, England -- Burglars have stolen a set of golden rosary beads that once belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots. The beads are said to...

MEXICO CITY -- Nicaraguan Catholic leaders have decried a series of repressive acts that targeted parties and individuals linked with the opposition ahead of...

BARCELONA, Spain -- The Barcelona Archdiocese will combine most parishes into larger pastoral communities, amid falling church attendance and secularization. A statement on the archdiocesan...

WASHINGTON -- A congressional panel, during a May 18 hearing, weighed the possibility of a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing...

ATLANTA — As their blended voices filled the chapel, its ceiling painted to resemble a star-filled night, the 10 women and men chanted: “Dum...

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s archbishop said May 17 that the “positive reaction” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has expressed about a Vatican official’s letter...

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court said in a May 17 order that it will hear oral arguments during its next term on a...

WASHINGTON  -- The chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace called on Israelis and Palestinians to end the violence in...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — A seminarian from the Diocese of Metuchen, N.J., was killed in a hit-and-run accident in New York City, the diocese reported. Ngu...