In a statement released Oct. 11, the Diocese of Assisi said that since his beatification one year ago, an estimated 117,000 pilgrims visited the teen’s tomb in the Shrine of the Renunciation at the Church of St. Mary Major in Assisi.
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Bishop Braxton: The Catholic Church ‘was largely on the wrong side of history’ on racism
The racial divide in American society and within the Catholic Church is one that needs to be bridged so that healing and progress can take place, said retired Bishop Edward K. Braxton of Belleville, Illinois.
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Joseph Donnelly, pro-life Democrat and former U.S. senator from Indiana, is Vatican ambassador nominee
Joseph Donnelly, 66, served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013 and was a U.S. senator from 2013 to 2019.
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Pope Francis will not attend climate summit in Glasgow after all
Pope Francis will not be going to the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, as he had hoped.
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Bishop Robert Barron warns that religion should not be just a ‘hobby’ for Americans
In his homily for a Red Mass in New Orleans, Bishop Robert Barron emphasized the need for religion in an otherwise secular society.
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Pope Francis to name St. Irenaeus of Lyon a doctor of the church
Pope Francis said he intends to declare as a doctor of the church St. Irenaeus of Lyon, the second-century theologian known for his defense of orthodoxy amid the rise of gnostic sects.
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Court absolves former altar boy accused of abusing a younger boy in Vatican’s youth seminary
A Vatican tribunal absolved a former altar boy of charges that he molested a younger boy in the Vatican’s youth seminary, ruling Wednesday in the first clergy sexual abuse trial to be heard by the pope’s criminal court.
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‘This is a moment of shame’: Pope Francis says the church has failed to center abuse victims for too long
The Catholic Church’s inability to make victims of abuse their top concern is a cause for intense shame, Pope Francis said.
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What you need to know from Day 1 of the Vatican real estate trial
The Vatican prosecutor conceded procedural errors in his fraud and corruption investigation into the Holy See’s finances and offered to remedy them by essentially starting over, throwing the trial of 10 people into question.
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Pope Francis prays for victims of Catholic sex abuse in France
Pope Francis prayed for the tens of thousands of victims of clerical sexual abuse in France and urged the Catholic Church in the country to “undertake a path of redemption.”