Gossip is “a plague worse than COVID,” Pope Francis said, asserting that while speaking ill of others comes almost naturally, it is a tool of the devil to divide the church.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has put the brakes on most foreign travel and many in-person meetings, Pope Francis still has some major events on his fall 2020 agenda.

The aftermath of the Aug. 4 bombing in Beirut have had devastating effects on the people and the economy of Lebanon.

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Michel Mulloy, the bishop elect of Duluth following an investigation.

An interview with academic philosopher and theologian Robert McTeigue, S.J.

My father turned away from religion. While reading his old letters, I got a glimpse of some of his earlier experiences with the Church.

The new encyclical will bear the title “Fratelli tutti” and it will be released on the feast of St. Francis on Oct. 3.

Strong laws and codes of conduct for law enforcement officers already exist, but mechanisms for oversight and accountability are needed, writes Kathleen McChesney.

Scarboro missionaries in Canada are known for living the Gospel and contributing powerfully to social justice efforts in some of the most impoverished regions of the world.

The Biden campaign launched an effort to convince Catholic voters that Mr. Biden embodies their shared values.

Almost four decades after their deaths, these women martyrs are remembered, not because of how they died, but as examples of Christian lives well-lived.

A month after a double blast struck Beirut, Pope Francis’ closest collaborator assured the Lebanese: “The whole world supports you.”

As many people around the world face economic uncertainty due to the pandemic, a paradigm shift is needed, Pope Francis said.

Between 2007 and the publication of “Laudato Si’” in 2015, Pope Francis “underwent a journey of conversion, of conversion of the ecological problem. Before that I didn’t understand anything.”

Known for playing Latin American villains, Jose de Almeida plays a priest in ‘Fatima’ and a cardinal in ‘Warrior Nun.’

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An archbishop barred from reentering Belarus by authorities is seeking the assistance of the Vatican.

The chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, has said that companies are using the excuse of the pandemic to take advantage of their workers.

A class-action lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Vancouver charges that it failed to protect parishioners from clerical sexual abuse.

Given the longevity of the pandemic, the church in Europe will have to deal with the urgency of keeping the faithful engaged in their faith, according to the archbishop of Luxembourg.