In promoting Christian unity, ecumenical prayer and practical cooperation among divided church communities, the COVID-19 pandemic has not been all bad news.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) — A new Knights of Columbus/Marist Poll shows that 71 percent of Americans support legal limits on abortion and a majority of Americans — 54 percent — oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. In addition, the poll found that 81 percent of Americans believe laws can protect both the mother and her […]

The Irish government has added a new public holiday to the national calendar to honor the country’s female patron, St. Brigid of Kildare.

Pope Francis received a formal recommendation to declare St. Irenaeus of Lyon a doctor of the church, the Vatican said.

A law firm’s report on how abuse cases were handled in the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising incriminated retired Pope Benedict XVI, with lawyers accusing him of misconduct in four cases during his tenure as Munich archbishop.

At the time of his death at age 93 Dec. 29, Philippines-born Catholic Fame Academia was one of the few remaining witnesses to the Bataan Death March carried out by the Japanese military in the early days of World War II against U.S. and Filipino soldiers.

Chongli, a popular resort town and venue for the main skiing events during the upcoming Winter Olympics, holds a history of persecution and massacre of Catholics in the region during the imperial and communist regimes.

Charging that religious practice is increasingly threatened by legal maneuvering and public actions that seek to limit the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious rights, speakers during an online launch of the National Committee for Religious Freedom Jan. 18 called on Americans to join the effort.

The Supreme Court announced Jan. 14 that it would hear an appeal from a former high school football coach in Washington state who says his rights to freedom of speech and religion were violated when he was fired in 2015 for praying on the football field after team games.

A federal appeals court sent a challenge to the Texas abortion law back to the state’s Supreme Court Jan. 17.