Catholic News Service

At a Jan. 22 ceremony to beatify four martyrs from El Salvador, including Jesuit Fr. Rutilio Grande, Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez said the four had "come from the great tribulation" of the country's horrific period of violence and civil war.

Highlighting the importance of the Bible in the life of faith and the role of lay women and men in sharing the Gospel, Pope Francis formally installed eight men and women in the ministry of lector and eight others in the ministry of catechist.

Catholic lawyer Joe Donnelly of Indiana is the new U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.

 A Vatican appellate court rejected the appeal of two former top managers of the Vatican bank who were found liable for mismanagement.

While the church's prayer should not be a battlefield, Archbishop Roche told Catholic News Service it is understandable that people are passionate about it.

Pope Francis officially has declared St. Irenaeus of Lyon a doctor of the church.

Companies, especially those in the construction sector, must guarantee safety in the workplace to protect the rights and dignity of their workers, Pope Francis said.

Commentary: El Salvador's Jan. 22 beatifications of two priests and two lay companions highlight our Salvadoran church's example as a martyrial church. All four died for the same cause: the Gospel.

Chongli, a popular resort town and venue for the main skiing events during the upcoming Winter Olympics, holds a history of persecution and massacre of Catholics in the region during the imperial and communist regimes.

Supreme Court justices Jan. 18 seemed to side with a Christian group that was excluded from flying its flag with an image of a cross on it outside of Boston's City Hall.

Hamburg Archbishop Stefan Hesse admitted having made mistakes in the case of an offending priest on trial in the Cologne regional court.

All Christians are invited to pray for unity and continue to journey together, said Cardinals Mario Grech and Kurt Koch.

As the tense hours of a Jan. 15 hostage standoff situation unfolded at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, so too did a manifestation of faith and community at nearby Good Shepherd Church.

A Polish diocese apologized after its lawyer suggested a former altar server could have enjoyed being sexually molested by a priest.

The Supreme Court announced that it would hear an appeal from a former high school football coach in Washington state who says his rights to freedom of speech and religion were violated when he was fired in 2015 for praying on the football field.

Pope Francis is sending thousands of dollars in relief aid to the Philippines after a devastating typhoon struck the Southeast Asian archipelago in December.

In a time when social networks can tend to divide people, Christian media must instead work to unite men and women, Pope Francis said.

God likes to intervene behind the scenes and without fanfare, always ready to help and lift people up, Pope Francis said.

The pope told the Lutheran, Catholic and Orthodox pilgrims that “we need to press forward with humility and patience, and always together, in order to encourage and support one another, for this is what Christ desires.”

In response to early January riots in Kazakhstan, the country's bishops called on priests to "continue praying for an early resolution and the reestablishment of peace and prosperity."