Before the vote, the Irish bishops called the law against blasphemy “largely obsolete,” and its demise makes for a more constructive social arrangement than Catholic hegemony.

This week on "Inside the Vatican," Colleen and Gerry unpack the final document from the Synod on Young People.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Catholic mother of five.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated Nov. 3 at St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer for Trappist Father Thomas Keating, a leading figure in the centering prayer movement that got its start in the 1970s. He died Oct. 25 at the abbey.