“We compliment, support and enrich one another.”

If individuals and nations are serious about protecting human rights and promoting peace, they must do much more to curb the global arms trade and assist immigrants, Pope Francis told seven new ambassadors to the Vatican. There are "stories that make us weep and feel ashamed: human beings — our brothers and sisters, children of…

“Love Is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive” will be the theme for the Sept. 22-27, 2015, meeting in Philadelphia

God is always by our side, never giving us more than we can handle, Pope Francis said. The countless women and men who stand tall through enormous difficulties, pain and especially persecution, are armed with the divine gift of fortitude that gives them the strength and hope to go on, he said. "It will do…

Priests, nun still missing after a month

Documents to be auctioned in Ireland on June 10

Threats had been issued by fundamentalists

"Every school, and even the government, should hold mandatory courses on the value of education and the sanctity of human life." Auxiliary Bishop Savio Fernandes of Mumbai, India, reacts to new abortion figures for the city revealing a 10% rise in terminations to 30,117 in 2013, a record high.   “We hope that this will…

In his first pastoral letter on vocations to the people of Kildare and Leighlin, Bishop Nulty said the priesthood might be for those interested in healing wounds, extending compassion, warming hearts and offering forgiveness.

A hand-painted prayer made by British primary school children and presented to an Apollo astronaut more than four decades ago is to go on sale in an auction of space memorabilia in Boston this week. The prayer, painted by pupils at the Holy Spirit Roman Catholic School in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire and illuminated by Carmelite…