By Kathy Schiffer | I’ve often thought, looking at pictures on missionary websites of simple thatched huts and woefully underfed children, that it would be so hard to be poor! Hard enough, I think...
By Edward Pentin | ROME — For supporters of the 1965 “Catacombs’ Pact of the Poor and Servant Church,” the pact had the noble aim of bringing the Church closer to the poor and back to the early...
By Father Juan Vélez | Many concerned observers are wondering whether the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region, which runs through Oct. 27, will lead to doctrinal changes. And if so...
By Cardinal Jorge Urosa | We are now nearing the end of the Pan-Amazon synod. We have already seen the results of the various circuli minores (small working groups), most interesting and challenging;.
By Edward Pentin | Despite being one of the four members of the drafting committee of the final document of the Pan-Amazon Synod, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn of Vienna said today he had not...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) -- Two men entered a Catholic Church near the Vatican early Oct. 21 and stole copies of a statue of a pregnant woman that had been a...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Manuel Rueda By Manuel Rueda CARACAS, Venezuela (CNS) -- Understanding the Bible can be challenging, but Catholics in Venezuela are becoming more familiar with Scripture through the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey By Barbara J. Fraser VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The forests, rivers and swamps of the Amazon basin do many things. They lock away carbon and methane, two key greenhouse gases.
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Every Christian is called to be a missionary, sharing the good news of salvation in Christ and making disciples for him, not for...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Tom Tracy By Tom Tracy FREEPORT, Grand Bahama (CNS) -- While many public schools in Grand Bahama remain closed some five weeks after Hurricane Dorian's landfall, Mary, Star of the...
Christians and Hindus must resist pessimism and instead draw from and add to the "a hidden sea of goodness" that convinces many men and women around the world that peace and brotherhood are...
Every Christian is called to be a missionary, sharing the good news of salvation in Christ and making disciples for him, not for oneself or one’s clique of like-minded believers, Pope Francis said.
“Hundreds of millions of Euro destined for the least and the poor are still administered opaquely and with no transparency, as if the Vatican were a merchant bank in an offshore country,” a new...