VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The celebration of World Mission Sunday is a popular day for a pope to canonize new saints -- not only those who ministered or gave up their lives in lands traditionally known as ...

NEW YORK (OSV News) – In a year characterized by disruption and division at the national and local levels, the normally formulaic annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation reflected the ...

In the majestic Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., during an Oct. 16 Celebration of Life for Ethel Skakel Kennedy, the singer Stevie Wonder honored his friend by first singing ...

Pope Francis met with a group of transgender and intersex Catholics, along with LGBTQ+ allies and a medical doctor ...

(OSV News) – The naming of a Japanese atomic bomb survivors group as this year's Nobel Peace Prize recipient is “fitting ... during this time of heightened geopolitical tension,” said Archbishop John ...

When Maryland voters go the polls in November, they will be presented with a ballot measure that seeks to enshrine in the state’s Constitution an amendment that “confirms an individual’s fundamental ...

While the Catholic Church’s Synod of Bishops is not exactly like a synod in other Christian communities, the issues being discussed and the way they are being handled are relevant to other Christian ...

Ethel Kennedy – widow of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, human rights activist and mother of 11 – died Oct. 10, her family ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met for the third time since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, focusing their discussion on the repatriation of ...

Fans of the 2017 film “Wonder” may recognize the character of Julian Abans (Bryce Gheisar), a student on whose adjustment to a new school the opening scenes of the touching wartime drama “White Bird” ...

(OSV News) -- As Hurricane Milton took aim at Florida just days after Hurricane Helene, Catholic Charities USA launched a dedicated disaster relief donation campaign. CCUSA -- the official domestic ...