The help Father Beotti “offered to many Jewish people persecuted by the Nazi-Fascists played a decisive role” in his death, according to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.

Pope Francis will travel to Portugal for World Youth Day in the first week of August and include a stop at the popular Marian shrine in Fatima, the Vatican confirmed.

Pope Francis’ peace mission, which he first announced on April 30, now appears to be underway.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by Samantha Richardson

Debt ceiling negotiations are rankling some Catholic leaders.

The Catholic Church played a major role in bringing tobacco to Italy, which is still the number one producer of raw tobacco in the European Union today.

The Vatican said the driver was about 40 years old and was in a “serious state of psychophysical alteration."

I am a bishop, but before anything else, I am a human being who understands the severe toll of mental illness, especially when it is left untreated.

The Earth is in trouble. How can religious traditions like Christianity be bearers of wisdom and help lay out a roadmap for ecological care of the planet?

In 'Sister Death,' Beatrice Marovich explores the connections between living and dying in a way that seeks to refute the concept of death as enemy while not accepting it as something that is good or desirable.