35,000 have arrived by boat in southern Europe. Some 1,600 are dead or missing.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn from his post as pastor of the diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph Missouri The bishop was the first Catholic prelate to be convicted by a civil court in the United States for the criminal lsquo misdemeanor rsquo of not reporting a pr

A divided archdiocese calls for mercy and imagination, not digging in and building bunkers.

The national Catholic community is remembering Cardinal Francis George who passed away Friday as a man of nbsp intelligence scholarship and leadership skills ndash with an often acerbic wit and penchant for controversial comments But for many of Chicago rsquo s 2 3 million Catholics George

Last month I published a number of articles about the surveys being used to gather information from Catholics all over the world in preparation for next October rsquo s Synod on the Family In the last of my four pieces I tried to find out what was being done in other parts of the world In a number

Pope Francis spent 50 minutes with a delegation from the Leadership Conference of American Women Religious LCWR today after the Vatican rsquo s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith CDF and the LCWR announced in a joint report that they had reached a positive conclusion to a three-year e