The activists could face up to two years in prison if convicted on charges of offending religious sentiment and desecration of Poland's most-revered icon.

The Australian government’s international financial watchdog, Austrac, said it overestimated bank transfers from Vatican City to Australia over the past six years by more than $1.5 billion dollars.

The rush of federal executions was an “aberration” that does not reflect the great successes of the death penalty abolition movement in recent years.

Father James Martin: An alarming number of Catholic clergy contributed to an environment that led to the fatal riots at the U.S. Capitol.

A selection of reader comments from across America’s coverage of the riot.

Women have served as lectors and acolytes for decades. Now Pope Francis has changed canon law to formally recognize their ministry.

Hitler. Pinochet. Franco. The bishops have missed opportunities to stand up for democracy in the past. We can’t let it happen again.

For 17 years the attorneys general of the United States did not pursue death even though that power was in their hands, then you hit somebody like Trump.’

Donald J. Trump should be impeached, removed and barred from holding any future federal office—immediately.

Recognizing “the gifts of each baptized person”—women and men—Pope Francis ordered a change to canon law and liturgical norms so that women could be formally installed as lectors and acolytes.