Bishop Brennan was one of nearly 40 bishops in Rome for a regularly scheduled series of meetings with the pope

The March for Life, the annual march in Washington to protest legalized abortion in the United States, is tying itself in 2020 to the women's suffrage movement for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.

Cardinal Charles Bo of Yangon has appealed to the international community not to punish the people of Myanmar as it faces genocide charges over the military's 2017 crackdown on Rohingya.

Despite growing recognition of climate change as a legitimate and looming threat, current commitments to mitigate its effects and alter human behavior fall short of those needed to resolve the crisis in time, Pope Francis said.

For more than a year, he has faced questions about how he has addressed the clergy sex abuse crisis.

Graffiti was scrawled in Hebrew on a wall and a car was burned in the Palestinian town of Taybeh