IMAGE: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Guatemalan Bishop Alvaro Ramazzini said he notices when he visits family in the U.S. that almost anywhere he goes, the lights seem...
IMAGE: CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters By Jonathan Luxmoore WARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- A close aide to St. John Paul II has vigorously defended the late pope's handling of sexual abuse by...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Thomas Mukoya, Reuters By Beth Griffin UNITED NATIONS (CNS) -- Women should not be required to divest themselves of femininity to achieve empowerment and gender equality, according...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- One of the founders of liberation theology in Latin America said he supports an effort to declare St. Oscar Romero a doctor of the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Josh Estey, Care International via Reuters By Bronwen Dachs CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) -- Two boys at a Catholic boarding school in Zimbabwe are among the more than 300 people...
By Fr. Stanley Smolenski | The doleful eyes looking at the viewer from the miraculous painting of Our Lady of Sorrows in Quito, Ecuador, are unforgettable. She holds her son’s crown of thorns...
By Patrick Reilly | Lately we’ve been hearing about a college admissions scandal and FBI raids of parents’ homes. But Catholic families may be being cheated by an even bigger fraud. The news is abuzz...
By Peter Jesserer Smith | WASHINGTON — Work requirements for government-assistance programs form a key part of President Donald Trump’s March 11 budget proposal to Congress, with the White House...
By Peter Jesserer Smith | Editors Note: This story originally appeared March 24, 2015. The content includes updates on new research. PHILADELPHIA — On a September day in 2008, a...
By Catholic News Agency | BISMARCK, N.D. — There’s a scene in the middle of The Lord of the Rings, a fantasy series written by Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, where the quest to destroy an evil,...