Justin McLellan, Catholic News Service
Pope Francis expels 10 members from influential Peruvian Catholic movement, citing...
VATICAN CITY -- Following an investigation into an influential Peru-based Catholic movement that has expanded across Latin America and the United States, Pope Francis...
Mind and heart: Church must combat mental health crisis, sister says
ROME -- "The church has always been in spaces with people in extremely fragile situations, always," said Sister Idília Carneiro, the new superior general...
Migrant morality: Pope doubles down on message of acceptance
VATICAN CITY-- As immigration becomes an increasingly hot-button political issue in the United States and Europe, Pope Francis again underscored the moral weight of...
Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith describes approved devotion at site...
VATICAN CITY -- Devotions at a Marian shrine in Spain that communicate Mary's "close and affectionate presence" can and should continue, the Dicastery for...
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández says Dicastery for Doctrine of Faith will...
VATICAN CITY -- Vatican rulings on allegedly supernatural phenomena, such as Marian apparitions, will continue to be released publicly, but official validation of an...
Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith releases its 1974...
VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican has made public its 1974 decision denying the authenticity of Marian apparitions alleged to have occurred in Amsterdam between...
Pope Francis stresses the importance of worldwide democracy at Italian Catholic...
VATICAN CITY -- Catholics are called to be active participants in political life and be a force against the decline of democracy worldwide, Pope...
Pope Francis tells audience heaven is not a secure vault: ‘Everyone,...
VATICAN CITY -- Heaven is not a secure vault protected from outsiders but a "hidden treasure" that is reached by cultivating virtues, Pope Francis...
Pope Francis says the emptying of Christians from the Middle East...
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis expressed his concern that Christians fleeing the Holy Land and the whole of the Middle East will leave no...
Pope Francis prays for addicts and for the conversion of drug...
VATICAN CITY -- While Christians must treat addicts with care and comprehension, drug traffickers who push their products on the vulnerable are "murderers" who...