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QUEBEC CITY -- Cardinal Gerald Lacroix asked parishes in the Archdiocese of Quebec to "pause" their catechetical programs to give them the time they need to think about what comes next.

The Archdiocese of Los Angeles is inviting Catholics to join in a novena and to watch Masses online this weekend in preparation for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees. ​​​​​​​

NEW YORK -- The worldwide coronavirus pandemic cast an unmistakable shadow over an otherwise hopeful prayer service Sept. 14 on the eve of the opening of the 75th session of the U.N. General Assembly.

Bangladeshis mourned the death of U.S. Holy Cross Father Richard W. Timm, an internationally acclaimed scientist, educationist, humanist and development pioneer who served in Bangladesh for more than six decades.

VATICAN CITY -- Church services and Mass online cannot compare to or replace the in-person participation of the faithful, the head of the Vatican's office for divine worship told the world's bishops.

VATICAN CITY -- The Vatican expects to renew its interim deal with China on the appointment of bishops, as part of efforts to “normalize” the life of the Catholic Church in China, Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin said Monday.

A former colonel of the Salvadoran military, Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, has been convicted in a Spanish court for is participation in the murder of five Jesuit priests in 1989. Montano has been sentenced to more than 133 years in prison.

A spokesman for China’s foreign ministry said Thursday that China’s interim deal with the Vatican has been “implemented successfully.”

Individual rights and freedom obviously are essential for human flourishing, but human happiness depends a lot on relationships -- kinship and friendship, but also the broader common good, said Dominican Sister Helen Alford.

The tabernacle that was stolen earlier this week from the St. Catherine of Alexandria Cathedral in St. Catharines, Ontario was recovered on Wednesday, September 9.

When Sister Norma Pimentel used to query the needs of asylum-seekers in a tent camp along the Rio Grande in this Mexican border city, they asked for supplies such as utensils and blankets. Now when she speaks with them, they voice fears for their safety and ask about an exit.

New laws passed by Queensland Parliament in Australia Sept. 8, 2020, mean religious institutions and their members are no longer able to use the seal of the confessional as a defense in child sex abuse matters.

A rural parish priest in Vietnam shows just how much the church can accomplish when it dedicates itself to serving others.

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, president of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union, said he expects that even after the pandemic, "the number of people who come to church will diminish."

Today, almost four decades after the murder of three women religious and one laywomen during the Salvadoran Civil War, the women are remembered for their examples of Christian lives well-lived, with the words "martyrs" and "saints" thrown about by those keeping their memory alive.

WASHINGTON -- The leader of the Diocese of Hong Kong has instructed priests to avoid politics in homilies and admonishing them for “offensive” and “provocative” preaching. The warning comes amid a crackdown on free expression in Hong Kong,  after the implementation of the new National Security Law in July.

The Bishop of San Rafael, Argentina, warned last week that he will impose canonical sanctions on priests who distribute Communion on the tongue during the coronavirus pandemic, in defiance of a diocesan directive permitting the distribution of Communion only in the hand.

VATICAN CITY -- Christians must work with members of other religions in responding to "a world wounded by the COVID-19 pandemic and by the scourge of religious intolerance, discrimination, racism, economic and ecological injustice and many other sins," said a new document from the Vatican and the World Council of Churches.

VATICAN CITY -- Catholics will mark the World Day of Migrants and Refugees during the ecumenical celebration of the Season of Creation, highlighting the obligation, as Pope Francis says, to listen to the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor, said Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny.

VATICAN CITY — Twenty-six weeks after his last weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis will resume his audiences with the public present, but in a Vatican courtyard.