Warning of “the increasingly concrete threat of a world war,” Pope Francis called for “the diplomacy of hope” in his address to the ambassadors of the 184 countries that have diplomatic relations with the Holy See.

Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy as Archbishop of Washington, D.C., and Sister Simona Brambilla, an Italian Consolata missionary, as prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.

Canada. The true north, strong and…free? Not if President-elect Donald J. Trump has anything to say about it. And he does.

In 1930, Hollywood teamed up with the Catholic Church. The result was the Production Code, a document that dictated what movies could and could not depict.

“This is a very significant beginning,” Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the chief Vatican organizer of the Jubilee Year, said in a statement.

Top reports from America's “Dispatches” department include looks at conflict, migration and geopolitics through a Catholic filter.

Pope Francis today named Cardinal Robert McElroy as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his most like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church in the U.S. capital at the start of Donald Trump’s second administration.

While I would never wish this disease on anyone, it has prompted a personal eucharistic revival of sorts within my own spiritual life.

“I want to be a companion to Sister Sheral on this journey for as long as I have breath,” Sister Maureen Sinnott writes.

San Antonio's Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller discussed the incoming Trump administration, synodality, the U.S. bishops’ anti-poverty program and his health.