The pope wants to awaken consciences to the greatest movement of people since World War II.

“Our nation seems to have lost a sense of the importance of cultivating friendships as fellow citizens who, being equal, share much in common,” Archbishop Blase Cupich said in a homily on March 12 at Old St. Patrick’s Church.

Given the personality of the pope, he will more likely prefer to mark his third anniversary privately and quietly, on his knees, in sincere prayer and petition.

Report notes "reasonable grounds" to consider that crimes against humanity had been committed

“She was criminalized by Honduran authorities because of her activism, so now it is too difficult for her family to think the same system is going to make an independent and true investigation.”

An international charity has urged better protection for Christian refugees in Germany after church officials said many face abuse in Muslim-dominated camps and reception centers."We've heard much about the nasty treatment of Christians, and we're compiling a report to push politicians

Five years on, the most heavily damaged communities have yet to be rebuilt. About 180,000 people are still displaced, including those reluctant to return to homes in Fukushima.

If Trump is the white Catholic consensus candidate, late primaries look good for him.

Once you see another as an object of your desires, it is only a small step to see the other as an object to be marketed.

What he is doing is normal human, Christian behavior. These are the revolutions at the heart and soul of Pope Francis’ ministry.

I felt both uncomfortable and challenged as a bishop in the United States.

The new rules call for an administrator to be named for each saintly cause who must "scrupulously respect" the intention of each donation.

For almost 40 years, for eight to 16 hours a day, the bent, bearded priest heard the confessions of tens of thousands of souls.

The fact that a new government could not come into being shows how serious the political fractiousness has become.

The report argues that the case for genocide exists and called on Secretary of State John Kerry to make such a declaration and to include Christians in it.

The Washington archdiocese said the issue is not about free speech because "lacking in this choice by the student group is any reflection of what should be an environment of morality, ethics and human decency that one expects on a campus that asserts its Jesuit and Catholic history and identity."

Catholics at all levels of the church also need to learn to listen to women's "voices of faith" as input that is not "threatening," but enriching.

Father Rizzo said he usually hears 20-30 confessions a day in Italian or Spanish, but the number of penitents increases on Saturdays and Sundays, and he will offer the sacrament to at least 50 people each day on the weekend.

"What is particularly fascinating and troubling is all three recent popes were clearly opposed to the wars, yet at no level in the Catholic community was there any major opposition or sustained witness," San Diego Bishop Robert W. McElroy said.