Spanish missionary Fr. Bernardo Blanco, who was abducted in 1993 on the Mindanao island of Basilan, died on March 10 in Quezon City. Blanco, a Claretian priest, died at 1:02 a.m. at Diliman ...

The regime is now keeping Catholic priests under surveillance, checking their cellphones, and demanding weekly reports on ...

How’s Pope Francis doing? Can you give him my get-well wishes? Can I speak with him directly? The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls with questions like ...

The Vatican’s central number is public — and the sisters of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master make sure all who call it get a real person, not the “press 1 for English, 2 for Latin” version of ...

A Catholic church in Kansas has been targeted in what that state's bishops are calling a "hate crime." St. Patrick Church in Wichita announced on its Facebook page March 15 that it had been vandalized ...

Second of two parts FR. Juan Severino Mallari, the first documented serial killer in the Philippines, killed 57 people in a ...

America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration was in 1600 in the Spanish colony of present-day St. Augustine, Florida.

The Rev. Edward Weisenburger is the sixth archbishop to lead the archdiocese. He succeeds Archbishop Allen Vigneron.

Globally, the number of priests per 259,000 Catholics reflects regional disparities. While the ratio is higher in Africa and ...

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. known as the Apostolic Nuncio, took part in the Mass, ...