Priests in Louisiana are discovering that by helping those affected by Hurricane Laura, they are finding renewed purpose in their vocations.

"Returning to Minsk, I was not allowed in at the Kuznica-Bialystok border crossing," Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk-Mohilev told the Catholic Information Agency, KAI, in neighboring Poland Aug. 31.

At the first-ever OSV Innovation Challenge’s virtual Demo Day, three Catholic enterprises walked away with $100,000. Here’s how they plan to support the mission of the church.

The United States is going through a national examination of conscience on the question of race, and the Latino community is no exception.

During the virus crisis, Francis has become a 21st century “prisoner of the Vatican," as one of his predecessors was once known, robbed of the crowds, foreign travel and visits to the peripheries that so defined and popularized his papacy.

American Catholics had seen the problems the church got into in Europe when hierarchy aligned itself with specific rulers or political parties. American Catholics, including most bishops, did not want to go down that road.

No sooner had federal forces arrested José Antonio Yépez Ortiz -- a crime boss known as "El Marro" -- than stories surfaced of his supposed generosity with the Catholic Church and devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Traditional ways of campaigning are upended in a pandemic, so candidates have to find other ways to reach out to prospective voters.

While cautioning against blind reliance on “unseen forces and the invisible hand of the market,” Pope Francis sees the creative work of business as fundamental to building a just society.

Celebrating an Aug. 28 Mass to mark the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King's historic March on Washington, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory urged Catholics to continue the dream of the late civil rights leader and to work for reconciliation and unity building.