Nicaragua appears to have frozen the bank accounts of the country's Jesuit university, marking yet another attack on the Catholic Church.

On this special summer episode of “Inside the Vatican,” America editors Ricardo da Silva, S.J. and Gerard O’Connell recap World Youth Day.

A Reflection for Friday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time, by Samantha Richardson

Controversy and deep division continue in an Indian archdiocese over the direction the priest faces during the celebration of the liturgy.

Bishop Valério’s nomination came as a surprise to many since Pope Francis had named Américo Manuel Alves Aguiar, auxiliary bishop of Lisbon, a cardinal on July 9. It had been wrongly presumed then that the pope would appoint the cardinal-elect as the new patriarch after the World Youth Day celebrations.

A Reflection for the Feast of St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr, by Brigid McCabe