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Missing Mass: Social isolation keeps elders safe but lonely during coronavirus...

In communities around the world, the social isolation that keeps elders safe from the coronavirus but precludes going to church is proving extremely difficult...

Rome parishes agree to lend classroom space to local public schools...

ROME -- Public schools in Rome, like elsewhere in the world, are scrambling to ensure the safety of students and staff while also resuming...

Peoria’s new coadjutor Bishop Louis Tylka is ‘filled with great joy...

PEORIA, Ill. -- While there was social distance between those present, every space inside St. Mary's Cathedral was repeatedly filled with sounds of joyful...

U.S. surgeon general Dr. Jerome Adams says preventing spread of coronavirus...

MIAMI -- Calling the COVID-19 pandemic the challenge of a lifetime, the nation's top public health official traveled to Florida seeking help in slowing...

Pope Francis names Auxiliary Bishop Ronald Hicks of Chicago to head...

WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis has appointed Auxiliary Bishop Ronald A. Hicks of Chicago to head the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois. Bishop Hicks, 52, is vicar...

Author Cassie Everts hopes book on miscarriages comforts those grieving same...

GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Cassie Everts remembers the day in 2011 when she mourned in silence after experiencing her third miscarriage. "I remember sitting at...

Pope Francis ‘saddened’ by Turkish court ruling turning Hagia Sophia Museum...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said he was saddened after a Turkish court ruled to revert the iconic Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque. While...

Robbers invade Bannabikira Sisters convent in Uganda, beat nuns and take...

KAMPALA, Uganda -- Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni instructed security officials to carry out a thorough investigation to track down robbers who attacked a convent...

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops renew nuclear disarmament call as 1945...

WASHINGTON -- Members of a U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' committee renewed a long-standing call for nuclear disarmament as the 75th anniversary of the...

Survey of United States bishops reveals coronavirus pandemic has shaken diocesan,...

CLEVELAND -- Nearly every bishop responding to a survey said the coronavirus pandemic has seriously affected the celebration of the sacraments and rites and...

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