At the request of retired Pope Benedict XVI, his name will be removed as co-author of a book defending priestly celibacy, said Cardinal Robert Sarah, the Vatican official who coordinated work on the book.

Since marriage and priesthood both demand the total devotion and self-giving of a man to his vocation, “it does not seem possible to realize both vocations simultaneously,” retired Pope Benedict XVI said in a new book.

A native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Sayers’ first five novels touch on the sense of separateness and isolation of Catholic communities in the heavily Protestant U.S. South.

At least one person has died and one Catholic church was destroyed by the latest of a series of earthquakes to rock Puerto Rico.

Thousands have seen the photograph and its impact continues weeks after the priest took the shot.

Like the ocean depths in which it’s set, director William Eubank’s monster movie “Underwater” (Fox) is dim and murky.

People cannot call themselves Christians if they sow the seeds of war, Pope Francis said.

Hope is the virtue needed to approach the coming year, especially when the looming threat of war surrounds a humanity scarred by violence, Pope Francis said.

Hours after Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, issued a statement calling for urgent prayers “that our world’s leaders will pursue dialogue and seek peace.”

Saying that “there is no end in sight to the horror which confronts us,” Archbishop Mark Coleridge, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, said the bishops have implemented a national response to months of wildfires.