The encyclical, to be published on June 18, is titled "Laudato Sii" ("Praised Be").

"My family and I were on the wrong side of the political fence," said Rita of Honduras in Spanish. Her last name has been omitted for her safety. "We received death threats, we were detained by the police for absolutely no reason."Had we not left, I don't know if we would hav

Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which used the term "cultural genocide" to describe what happened to aboriginal Canadians in residential schools, said reconciliation within the country "is going to take hard work."In a 382-page report with 94 recommendations, th

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With financial assistance from Pope Francis, a Rome parish led 50 homeless and poor people on a pilgrimage to see the Shroud of Turin June 4 and has provided the money needed for another Rome parish to do the same a week later.Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, sai

Group demands inquiry into which French companies had purchased 'terrorist petrol'

A veteran Catholic Relief Services financial official has resigned in the wake of report that he was in a same-sex marriage.Rick Estridge, vice president for overseas finance, stepped down after 16 years with the U.S. bishops' overseas aid and development agency, saying "it was the right de