After penning a letter to the world’s cardinals asking them to focus on financial reform, urging spending cuts and ...

When asked about the U.S. presidential election, the pontiff said voters must “choose between the lesser evil.” Both ...

"Additional effort is now needed on everyone's part so that a 'zero deficit' may not only be a theoretically, but effectively ...

For the first time, a sculptor and native of Japan will be awarded the Ratzinger Prize. His name is Etsurō Sotoo, born in ...

Pope Francis has written to the College of Cardinals of the Catholic Church calling on them to step up efforts to cut costs ...

Following new accusations of sexual violence against the once-renowned Capuchin priest Abbé Pierre, the Catholic Church in ...

An independent review board has found the Rev. Michael Swierz, former pastor of St. Patrick Church, to be “unsuitable for ...

In a Sept. 16 letter released Friday by the Vatican Press Office, Pope Francis recalled that 10 years ago the reform of the ...

The allegation dated back to his time as a parochial vicar (associate pastor) in the 1980’s at Saint Rose Parish, Girard.

Earlier in the year, the Diocese announced Swierz was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation referencing an ...

The Vatican issued a long-awaited note on the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje, in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It did not say the apparitions were authentic but acknowledged spiritual fruit.

While offering an overall favorable judgment on the Marian apparitions and devotions associated with the Medjugorje ...