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WASHINGTON -- Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Toledo, Ohio, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged the faithful...

PARIS -- Pope Leo XIV's forceful defense of human life during his Sept. 25-27 visit to France has reignited debate over the country's newly...

CHICAGO -- An El Paso, Texas, priest who has helped form approximately 80,000 lay leaders throughout his 50 years of ministry is the recipient...

ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM METZ TO ROME -- In light of growing concerns about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, Pope Leo XIV...

A federal agency has sued an Ohio-based Catholic health system and its subsidiary over alleged religious and racial discrimination against a Jewish doctor who...

St. Bernadette Soubirous is usually depicted in statues around the world as the confounded peasant girl on her knees at the grotto in rural...

Even as we are children of God, many of us are creatures of mobile-device habit. Our screen time totals probably prove it. How does the...

In 1947, the Academy Awards began recognizing what were then called foreign language films on an annual basis. Over the decades since, movies from...

Each year on Oct. 3, the followers of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) -- friars; nuns; laypeople -- mark the globally popular saint's own...

St. Francis of Assisi's father, Pietro di Bernardone dei Moriconi, was a gregarious and generous man, a very ambitious and successful businessman. He was...