Regarding valid occasions for requesting the apostolic blessing, the almoner’s office establishes strict criteria. They are ...

By Daniel Payne South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier this week said the Catholic Church can lead in helping overcome decades ...

“No one was let go at that time. Everyone kept their jobs; some simply had their salaries reduced because they were working ...

Approximately 5,000 staff working for the Roman Curia and state institutions — such as the Vatican Museums, the Vatican ...

Approximately 93,000 faithful venerated the body of St. Teresa of Jesus (Ávila), which was publicly exhibited May 11–25 for ...

Portland, Oregon, Archbishop Emeritus John Vlazny, who led the northeastern U.S. archdiocese from 1997 to 2013, died this ...

Those attending the June 14 celebration honoring Pope Leo XIV at Rate Field in Chicago will hear directly from the new ...

On the day of his election, Pope Leo XIV received the gift of a silver pectoral cross containing the relics of Pope St. Leo ...

After the war ended in 1975 and the communists took over all of Vietnam, soldiers and civil servants like Ho who worked under the Western-backed South were detained, sent to re-education camps and ...

The Holy See established diplomatic relations with the UN in 1957, representing the Vatican City state as well as the supreme authority of the Catholic Church, including the pope as bishop of Rome and ...

Meanwhile, Sister Alessandra Smerilli, Secretary of the Holy See’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, highlighted Pope Francis’ notion of the ‘ecological debt’ owed by rich countries ...