By Edward Pentin | The testimony given to the Youth Synod last week by Safa Al Alqoshy of Bahdad, Iraq, received the “most sustained applause” of any speaker so far, according to Bishop...
By Jennifer Roback Morse | Faithful Catholics are understandably distressed over the scandalous revelations about our church. Sexual abuse of minors, sexual harassment of seminarians, cover-ups...
By Tito Edwards | The Disproportionate German Influence in the Holy See - Mark Lambert, De Omnibus Dubitandum Est.+++ The Miraculous Story Behind the Little Known Shoulder Wound of Jesus ...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters By David Agren SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (CNS) -- Near the end of his homily at a Mass just prior to St. Oscar Romero's canonization, Jesuit Father Jose Maria...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters By Melissa Vida VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Before the sun rose in Rome Oct. 14, 88-year-old Gaspar Romero and his brother, 93-year-old Tiberio Romero were at the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Melissa Vida and Junno Arocho Esteves ROME (CNS) -- For many pilgrims from El Salvador and for many Catholics who focus on the tie between faith and justice, waiting...
Pope Francis on Sunday hailed new saints Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI as saints vitally engaged with the world who still led lives of radical holiness.
Pope Francis will canonize two of the most important and contested figures of the 20th-century Catholic Church, declaring Pope Paul VI and the martyred Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero as models of...
Halfway through this month’s Synod of Bishops on young people, faith and vocational discernment, young people say damage to the Church’s credibility because of global clerical abuse scandals is a...