he president of the Japanese bishops' conference strongly condemned the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and deplored violence as a means of solving differences of political opinion. "Violence kills democracy. Violence kills freedom. Violence ...
Pope Francis has named Bishop Chad W. Zielinski of Fairbanks, Alaska, to head the Diocese of New Ulm, Minnesota. Since 2014, the 57-year-old prelate has served as the fifth bishop of Fairbanks. The diocese covers over ...
Prevented by war from meeting in Kyiv, 40 Ukrainian Catholic bishops from around the world met in Poland, less than 10 miles from the border with their homeland, in early July. The meeting of the Synod ...
The Diocese of Rome will host a prayer vigil the evening before the beatification of Pope John Paul I and his hometown will host the main Mass of Thanksgiving a week later, the office promoting ...
The Catholic bishops of Arizona issued a joint statement lauding the passage and signing of a bill intended to expand school choice throughout the state. The law, among other things, extends Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account program ...
The Vatican is now a formal party to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and has declared it intends also to formally join the 2015 Paris Agreement. "The Holy See, in the name and on ...
The July 4 mass shooting brought devastation to yet another community in the U.S. and such a tragic situation "has become shockingly commonplace in our country," said the chairmen of three committees of the U.S. ...
Pope Francis has named Maltese Archbishop Joseph Spiteri, nuncio to Lebanon for the past four years, as the new nuncio to Mexico. The Vatican announced the appointment July 7. The position will be a homecoming of sorts ...
When the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg opens its new $4 million museum and visitors center next year, it will be a milestone for those with a deep devotion to America's ...
The Chinese Communist Party is seeking to expand its apparatus to monitor and curb religious activities in cyberspace through training and deploying hundreds of "auditors" across the country, triggering concerns from rights groups. Under the guidance ...
