Pope Francis named a new apostolic nuncio to Cape Verde among several other appointments on July 9th.

Father Bryan Massingale says that our national inability to confront the social outcomes of racism is a “spiritual cataract.”

Police Chief David Brown blamed "snipers" and said three suspects were in custody while a fourth had exchanged gunfire with authorities in a parking garage downtown.

The gunfire broke out around 8:45 p.m. Thursday while hundreds of people were gathered to protest fatal police shootings this week in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and suburban St. Paul, Minnesota.

A Vatican tribunal has declared it had no jurisdiction to put two journalists on trial for publishing confidential documents.

Zimbabwe is "undergoing a very difficult patch, economically, socially, politically and spiritually," church leaders said.