Francis dismisses all-Italian five-member board of Vatican’s financial watchdog.

The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation voted in early June to encourage the ldquo lifting of the restrictions regarding the ordination of married men to the priesthood in the Eastern Catholic Churches of North America rdquo ldquo This action would affirm the ancient and leg

Nations singled out for deteriorating records on religious liberty.

Thousands around the world have appealed for the freedom of Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, a pregnant Sudanese woman sentenced to death for “apostasy” because she converted to Christianity when she married a Christan. • “No investigation of a criminal nature is being conducted…i

Anytime there are misunderstandings, errors or problems concerning religious orders, dialogue is the best way to deal with the situation, said the head of the Vatican office that oversees the world’s religious orders. “At times there are things that either may not have been understood or

Many cannot afford protections to shield them from extreme forces of nature.

South Sudan’s religious congregations urged the country’s political leaders to ensure that the latest peace agreement holds, and they condemned the atrocities and violence carried out by both government forces and rebel groups over the past five months. “Too much blood has been she

Cardinal rebukes L.C.W.R.'s futuristic ideas as “opposed to Christian revelation.”

When Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople meets Pope Francis in Jerusalem on May 25, one of their main discussion topics will be the “diminishing Christian minorities in the Middle East,” the patriarch told Catholic News Service. • The Catholic bishops’ conf

The new papal commission for protecting minors from clerical sex abuse will recommend stricter standards for accountability of abusers and those who fail to protect children, and will fight widespread denial of the problem within the church, said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, O.F.M.Cap., of Bosto