Catholic News Service

Pope Francis' message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2022 will reflect on the importance of including migrants and refugees in building a better world, the Vatican announced.

Pope Francis has confirmed that members of the Fraternity of St. Peter may continue to celebrate the Mass, sacraments and Liturgy of the Hours using the pre-Vatican II texts and forms, the fraternity said.

 Promoting better collaboration between women and men in the Catholic Church is not primarily about equality but about allowing the church to fulfill the mission given to it by God, said women speakers at a Vatican conference on priesthood.

The requirement that most priests in the Latin rite of the Catholic Church be celibate has theological and spiritual foundations and not only practical motivations, said speakers at an international conference on priesthood.

The Sisters of Mercy celebrated the release of six anti-mining protesters in Honduras, who spent nearly two-and-a-half years in pre-trial detention — in a case the country's Supreme Court said should have never proceeded.

Faith-based organizations called on the Biden administration Feb. 17 to combat "anti-Black racism in the U.S. immigration system."

The number of Catholics and of Catholic men and women who devote their lives to serving them continues to grow in Africa and Asia, Vatican statistics show, but pastoral ministry is still much more readily available to Catholics in Europe.

With help from the church in the U.S. and elsewhere, Venezuela's Catholics have maintained ministries among the country's most downtrodden. Yet the church struggles to maintain its work in some institutions.

Meeting leaders of the Eastern Catholic churches -- many from countries at war, facing the threat of war or dealing with the destruction left by war -- Pope Francis said human beings seem to be "attached to wars, and this is tragic."

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood cause of Argentine Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, the prelate who organized and oversaw the first six international celebrations of World Youth Day.

Developed by a group of nearly 100 institutional investors coordinated by the New York-based Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the statement details what the group expects to see from corporations as they transition to a more sustainable economy.

The Los Angeles Rams may have won Super Bowl LVI over the Cincinnati Bengals, but students in Catholic schools in both archdioceses are winners as well.

Eastern Catholic churches must strengthen their liturgical identity, especially given ongoing conflicts in many of the homelands of those churches and the continuing migration of Eastern Catholics to countries where most Catholics belong to the Latin rite.

The beauty that emanates from art, poetry and music can overcome obstacles and bring people closer to God, Pope Francis said.

The Diocese of Petrópolis and the city's parishes have opened their doors to assist victims of the torrential rainstorm that flooded the historic city of Petrópolis.

A priest who stood in for a 15-year-old boy who he thought was going to be executed during Spain's bloody civil war will be among a group of 16 priests, seminarians and laymen who are set to be beatified in Granada, Spain.

A national network of institutes of Catholic thought will soon launch as part of a new $3.65 million grant, issued by the John Templeton Foundation Feb. 1.

A Canadian cardinal who works at the Vatican remembered Bishop Remi De Roo, in all his strengths and faults, for his commitment to promoting social justice.

The same love that gave St. Joseph the strength to protect Jesus and Mary must inspire Christians to love the church, especially when calling out its sins and flaws, Pope Francis said

As Lebanon crumbles under a socioeconomic crisis, Lebanon's religious are assuming roles as relief and social workers.