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VATICAN CITY — To avoid any appearance of impropriety or undue influence, a cardinal or bishop who is a member of the Congregation for Saints' Causes and anyone officially appointed as a consultant to the congregation cannot serve as the postulator or official promoter of a candidate's cause for sainthood.
VATICAN CITY — While government subsidies are necessary sometimes to help a family survive, job creation is what will help them thrive, Pope Francis said.
OMAHA, Neb. — George Mulcrone of Chicago came to Omaha to visit relatives. "I wasn't expecting to see the Sistine Chapel," the parishioner of the Windy City's St. Walter Church quipped.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will have an audience with Pope Francis Oct. 29, the day before the G20 Leaders' Summit starts in Rome, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Oct. 14.
VATICAN CITY — All health care professionals have a right to conscientious objection, just as they have a right to denounce unjust harm inflicted on innocent and defenseless life, Pope Francis said.
When Audrey Powers went boldly into space Oct. 13 with the actor who played the original Captain Kirk on Star Trek, the thoughts, prayers and cheers of Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville, Md., her alma mater, went with her.
In a jubilant Mass Oct. 9 concluding the Black Catholic Theological Symposium, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington called the congregation to remember the Gospel's lesson to "live the fullness of life even now," despite struggles including societal disparities that disadvantage some people.
VATICAN CITY — Christian freedom means respecting other cultures and traditions rather than finding ways to impose "one's own model of life as though it were the most evolved and the most appealing," Pope Francis said.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has signed a decree recognizing a miracle attributed to the intercession of Pope John Paul I, clearing the way for his beatification.
VATICAN CITY — Evacuated in August as the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, the head of the now-interrupted Catholic mission said this is a time of "advent," waiting for God to reveal how the church can be present in the country again.
