The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors hopes to deliver a "Universal Guidelines Framework for Safeguarding" ...

The Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago recognized that Christian unity had to be based on a common faith and should be ...

Because of its universal character and outlook, the Catholic Church can be a driving force for building communion between the ...

THIBODAUX, La. (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has named Father Simon Peter Engurait, a priest of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux ...

In Russia, one criminal law and one civil law have been used to prosecute "blasphemy" and enforce compliance with President ...

Interest in Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States, has been steady, and so have the inquiries into joining the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Leo XIV and Russian leader Vladimir Putin held their first telephone conversation June 4 with the pope encouraging Putin to make a gesture to show he is serious about peace ...

Amid an investigation into a controversial and retracted FBI memo that suggested some "radical traditionalist" Catholics pose ...

In Syria for decades, priest was forced to leave in 2012 after criticizing then-Syrian President Bashar Assad. After returning in July 2013, he was kidnapped.