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Błeńska spent more than 40 years in Uganda caring for sufferers from Hansen’s disease, also known as leprosy, training local doctors, and turning St. Francis Hospital in Buluba into an internationally respected treatment center.

The pope, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and an international array of other Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh and Buddhist leaders gathered on Rome's Capitoline Hill Oct. 20 to affirm their community's commitment to peace, dialogue, fraternity and assistance to the poor and needy.

Catholic Extension and the Kino Border Initiative plan to host a virtual prayer event to show support for asylum-seekers looking to start new life in the U.S.

Demonstrators burned two Catholic churches in Chile, where gatherings to mark the one-year anniversary of mass protests against inequality descended into chaos.

The pope urged Christians to be active in society, inspired by the Gospel.

The Catholic voter "bears responsibility for connecting the dots between what our faith teaches and which candidates will best serve the common good," Bishop W. Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City said in a recent column for The Catholic Missourian, the diocesan newspaper.

In a video message for World Food Day, Pope Francis expressed concern that tons of food is being thrown away while people continue to die for lack of food.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ recently-released children’s book “Everyone Belongs” has won a gold medal in the Religion/Spirituality category of the 2020 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, the conference announced Oct.15. 

Pope Francis said Thursday that, among other global goals for education, he wants the world “to see in the family the first and essential place of education.”

Father Maccalli, a 59-year-old native of Crema, Italy, and and three other hostages were released in Mali after being kidnapped more than two years.

Every week since March, an army of volunteers and Father Evelio Menjivar, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in the Washington suburb of Landover Hills, Maryland, gather in the parish's parking lot to give away boxes of food to local families in need.

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is seeking to unite the children Oct. 18 in praying for peace and the end of the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than a million people around the world.

San Rafael police arrested five people Oct. 12 for tearing down a statue of St. Junipero Serra at St. Raphael Parish during a protest.

During the two days of questions from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Amy Coney Barrett made a clear distinction between policy preferences and legal precedents.

A statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the patron of immigrants, now stands overlooking the New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty.

The purpose of crying out to the Lord in prayer is not to get used to suffering, but to remember that God, and not humankind, is the only source of salvation and consolation, Pope Francis said.

But what might seem to some to be disparate issues, "Pope Francis really provides us an alternative way of looking at our life, and something new can emerge at this moment," said a member of a panel discussing the pope's encyclical Oct. 5, one day after it was issued.

WASHINGTON -- In his new encyclical, "Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship," Pope Francis reminds the faithful that "God’s plan for humanity has implications for every aspect of our lives," said the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

After months of silent hallways and screen-based learning, student voices can be heard again at Catholic schools in San Francisco.

Rick Raffo’s personal experience caring for his ailing mother brought him together with about a half-dozen others at St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo to begin training to serve on its first-ever mental health ministry team.