We must not fear losing priests because we ask the right questions of our bishops.

Since early July, Argentina's currency, the peso, has plunged more than 20 percent, while inflation has soared to more than 50 percent, as investors sour on the South American country and the Peronist movement.

After denouncing the record number of wildfires in the Amazon in August and the growing deforestation of the region, the Brazilian Catholic Church is pressuring the government to guarantee the safety of several Amazonian indigenous peoples, alerting the authorities of the imminent risk of genocide in northern Brazil.

Catholic schools and faith formation programs nationwide have had age-appropriate sexual abuse awareness training since soon after the U.S. bishops adopted the "Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People" in 2002.

"I'm not as bad as they paint me," McCarrick told Slate, which posted interview comments in an article Sept. 3. "I do not believe that I did the things that they accused me of."

Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni told journalists that “in an informal context, the pope wished to say that he always considers criticisms as an honor, particularly when they come from authoritative thinkers, and in this case from an important nation.”

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” we update you on who Pope Francis has chosen to make cardinals next month, and why the Bolsonaro government is nervous about the Synod on the Amazon.

Police arrested at least 70 people in South Africa's commercial capital, Johannesburg, Sept. 2, after protesters looted mostly foreign-owned shops and set fire to cars and buildings in the second outbreak of urban rioting in a week.

On Sept. 1, Bishop Francis Duffy of Ardagh announced to a packed basilica that the church had officially recognized 68-year-old Carroll's healing.

Boris Johnson is trying to run out the clock and force a no-deal Brexit, writes David Stewart in his analysis of British politics. But suspending Parliament may be pushing things too far.

When Pope Francis arrives in Mozambique on Sept. 4 he is going to a country that he already knows much about from his time as archbishop of Buenos Aires, the Rev. Juan Gabriel Arias, 50, told America on the eve of the papal visit.

The Rev. James Martin, S.J., leads listeners through an Examen on praying with nature.

John Sexton, an American attorney and former president of New York University, reflects on serving as a Catholic educator at a secular university, increased political polarization in the U.S. and his newest book "Standing for Reason: The University in a Dogmatic Age."

Pope Francis returns to sub-Saharan Africa for the second time on Sept. 4 to Sept. 10 to visit the Republics of Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius.

"Thank God the firefighters intervened," Francis said, referring to tiny Vatican City State's own fire department.

A Catholic school in Tennessee has removed the Harry Potter books from its library after the school’s priest decided they could cause a reader to conjure evil spirits.

Pope Francis said that the forthcoming United Nations Climate Action Summit “is of particular importance.”

10 of the 13 new cardinals will be eligible to vote in the next conclave, including Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, who oversees the Vatican department for migrants and refugees.

It is frighteningly easy to get nuns all wrong on the screen.

I’ve always wanted to give something to the sisters, and wish I had been able to give “The Bells of St. Mary’s.”