Bishop Carlos Enrique Herrera of Jinotega was forced to leave Nicaragua after accusing a local Sandinista mayor of sacrilege for disturbing a celebration of the Mass by blaring loud music outside the ...

Nov. 14 marked the closing of the diocesan phase of the cause for the beatification of Father Pedro Arrupe, the 28th superior ...

Dignitas Infinita, issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith in April, addresses growing concerns such as gender ...

Efforts to apply a 2024 Vatican document on human dignity to an American context and its "a radical emphasis on individual ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Friday called on the diocese of Rome to respond to a growing housing crisis in the Eternal City, ...

It proposed a special Vatican advocate or ombudsman to look ... in the first-ever global assessment of the Catholic Church’s efforts to address the crisis. The Pontifical Commission for the ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Vatican has unveiled its first-ever mascot “Luce,” the cheerful and hopeful face of the Roman Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year in 2025. The launch of the anime ...

The Catholic Church must do a better job of handling compensation for clergy sexual abuse victims, according to the Vatican's child protection commission report. The commission says compensation ...

Vatican City (AsiaNews ... and a culture of silence. The Catholic Church holds influence but faces complexity in safeguarding. Samoan culture struggles with addressing abuse and the situation ...

After several founding members resigned in frustration over Vatican stonewalling and the ... for example, that the Catholic Church in Mexico is hampered by “significant cultural barriers to ...

Parts of the Roman Catholic Church are still failing to ensure clerical ... raising concerns about a “lack of transparency” in the Vatican’s handling of cases. In its first annual report ...

Vatican officials seemed OK with the shocking ... but we wanted to be respectful of the heart of the Catholic Church," he says. Straughan guides USA TODAY through the questions that surface ...