Once all powerful in Poland, the Catholic Church has been under severe pressure this year -- from a series of abuse scandals and a perceived association with the country's

By Philip Pullella4 Min ReadVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican and the Australian Catholic Church have both denied knowledge of transfers worth US$1.8 billion which Australia’s financial watchdog says have

HONG KONG – In a high-walled Art Deco villa in the Hong Kong suburbs of Kowloon, the Vatican operates an unofficial diplomatic mission, its only political outpost of any kind

Pope Francis will not preside over the traditional end-of-the-year prayer service nor the New Year’s Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica due to “painful sciatica,” the Vatican said.In a statement published

As the fifth anniversary of his apostolic exhortation "Amoris Laetitia" approaches, Pope Francis announced that the Catholic Church will dedicate more than a year to focusing on the family and conjugal love.During his Sunday Angelus address

Masinloc Church Roman Catholic Parish Church of San Andres / Location: Masinloc, Zambales / Rebuilding of the church, 1837-53. The bell tower was built in 1882-83. The name Masinloc is said to

This year has been, no doubt, 12 months of a lot of bad news. Amid the endless barrage of reports of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic and social

Identity politics is now the term du jour and its meaning is clear enough on a superficial level—choosing people according to their physical characteristics and sexual preferences. The left wants

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The Australian’s Dennis Shanahan says “none of the Catholic hierarchy in Australia” knew about the $2.3 billion transferred from the Vatican to Australia over a six-year period. “What the Australian Catholic

The claim: Pope Francis approves COVID-19 vaccine developed with aborted fetal tissue for CatholicsThe leader of the Catholic church supports vaccination against COVID-19 for Catholics, despite possible ties to aborted

Cortes Church Roman Catholic Church of the Santisimo Nombre de Jesus (Santo Niño) / Location: Cortes, Bohol / Built in the late 1880s-1890s The present town is traced to an early settlement

CNA Staff, Dec 29, 2020 / 09:05 am MT (CNA).- The bishops of Nigeria have urged prayer for the safety and release of a Nigerian Catholic bishop who was abducted