The U.K.'s Catholic Association for Racial Justice plans to identify and support specific groups who have become newly vulnerable since Brexit.
One of the more intriguing questions Pope Francis prompted earlier this year when he announced that a Vatican commission would study whether the early church had women deacons was: How would Catholics react to women preaching?
Iraqi Christians gathered on Oct. 25 at the Church of our Lady of Perpetual Help in Ainkawa, Turkey, to offer prayers of support for Iraqi forces pressing an offensive against the Islamic State around Mosul.
Three Catholic charitable organizations that support programs in the United States and around the world rank among the top 100 groups in terms of fundraising.
Pope Francis told journalists, “How I would like a church which is poor and for the poor!”