Catholic News Service

Despite the continuing difficulties, Christmas in Gaza this year is filled with faith, hope and resilience, a Latin Patriarchate official said following a three-day pastoral visit.

Bishops in the island nation have declared Christmas Day and Dec. 26 as national days of prayer and mourning for typhoon victims and urged Catholics to redirect holday spending toward the recovery.

Six months after the Vatican announced criminal charges in connection with a London property deal that cost millions, the Vatican City State court is still dealing with preliminary, procedural arguments.

Lebanon's economic meltdown, which began in late 2019, has been described by the World Bank as one of the worst in the world since 1850.

"As we prepare to celebrate the birth of Christ, think of how different this Christmas will be for those who have lost so much," said Bishop John E. Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, in the eastern part of the state.

Cardinal Peter Turkson said he offered Pope Francis his resignation because he was at the end of his five-year appointment as prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.

Pope Francis asked people to celebrate a "real Christmas" by recognizing Jesus in their lives and cultivating peace in their hearts.

Pope Francis told children that Christmas is a sign of how much God loves them, and they are called to share that love.

Courts in wide swaths of the United States no longer impose death sentences or carry out executions.

That a woman apparently became the pope is why the legend insists that a special chair.

Thirteen new Maryknoll lay missioners were officially sent into mission to minister in six countries around the world.

The ongoing pandemic serves as a reminder that the world cannot move forward without cooperation and solidarity, Pope Francis told a group of ambassadors.

For next year's spring semester, some Catholic colleges are joining other colleges across the country in requiring students to receive COVID-19 vaccine booster shots.

A study issued by the Economic Policy Institute shows that even in the tech sector, immigrants are paid less than their U.S. counterparts, though federal law says that's not supposed to happen.

A group of Catholic and Anglican theologians has called on the Vatican to review and overturn a papal document that declared Anglican ordinations "absolutely null and utterly void."

Christian leaders in the Holy Land have asked for "an urgent dialogue" with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders "to ensure that no citizen or institution has to live under threat of violence or intimidation."

Pope Francis established a new Vatican foundation that will promote initiatives based on the principles set out in his encyclical "Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship."

The Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors hosted a three-day seminar looking at the rights in church trials of those alleging they suffered sexual abuse as children.

The absence of any words attributed to St. Joseph in the Gospels speaks volumes about the importance of silence, Pope Francis said.

Thomas J. Quigley, who worked for 45 years in service to the U.S. bishops, mostly in the realm of foreign policy, died Dec. 11 at age 91.