Pope Francis on Sunday hailed new saints Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI as saints vitally engaged with the world who still led lives of radical holiness.
Pope Francis will canonize two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of...
Halfway through this month’s Synod of Bishops on young people, faith and vocational discernment, young people say damage to the Church’s credibility because of global clerical abuse scandals is a...
The devil is more dangerous when he is polite and friendly, persuading people to be "lukewarm" and worldly, than when he shows his true face and blatantly pushes people to sin, Pope Francis...
Speaking at the Vatican on Friday, Auxiliary Bishop Robert Barron of Los Angeles told reporters he believed Cardinal Donald Wuerl's resignation came in 'good conscience.'
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters By David Agren SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) -- Near the end of his homily at a Mass just prior to St. Oscar Romero's canonization, Jesuit Father Jose Maria...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters By Melissa Vida VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Before the sun rose in Rome Oct. 14, 88-year-old Gaspar Romero and his brother, 93-year-old Tiberio Romero were at the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Melissa Vida and Junno Arocho Esteves ROME (CNS) -- For many pilgrims from El Salvador and for many Catholics who focus on the tie between faith and justice, waiting...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Carrying Pope Paul VI's pastoral staff and wearing the blood-stained belt of Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador, Pope Francis...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church must be a place of justice and mercy, and its members must be catalysts for change, some young observers said at...
By Edward Pentin | The testimony given to the Youth Synod last week by Safa Al Alqoshy of Bahdad, Iraq, received the “most sustained applause” of any speaker so far, according to Bishop...
By Jennifer Roback Morse | Faithful Catholics are understandably distressed over the scandalous revelations about our church. Sexual abuse of minors, sexual harassment of seminarians, cover-ups...
By Tito Edwards | The Disproportionate German Influence in the Holy See - Mark Lambert, De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.+++ The Miraculous Story Behind the Little Known Shoulder Wound of Jesus ...
By Courtney Grogan/ CNA | VATICAN — “Jesus is radical,” Pope Francis said in his homily at the canonization of Pope Paul VI, Oscar Romero, and five other new saints. “He gives all and he...
By Shaun McAfee | Several months ago Edward Pentin broke the news to the Register audience that Pope Paul VI was being canonized. There is perhaps no greater pope that has made a more significant...