Chris Herlinger

Amazon Frontlines is "the first organization of Indigenous and Western human rights and climate activists to receive the Prize," the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation said.

“My research demonstrates that millennial women on Instagram actively participate in the democratization of religious authority,” writes Porsia Tunzi.

Pope Francis may have closed the door on ordaining female deacons during his pontificate, but Catholic women — and the communities in which we serve — hold out hope for the grace of the diaconate.

U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Joe Donnelly will leave his post in July, the embassy announced.

Some 1 million pilgrims a year flock to Medjugorje, a Marian shrine located in a village 16 miles southwest from the city of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal efforts to shut down a Catholic migrant shelter network in El Paso, Texas, is the latest example of the state trying to criminalize migrants and migration, said Bishop Mark Seitz.

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The Oscar-winning film “The Zone of Interest,” in its focus on Rudolf and Hedwig Höss, asks a disturbing and damning question: What was it like to live at Auschwitz if you were part of the camp’s machinery of death?

The Catholic Church should not be discouraged by the challenge of confronting sex abuse, Pope Francis said, rather it must take concrete steps in developing policies to preserve the dignity of its members.

Pope Francis paid a brief visit to Rome’s Gemelli Isola Hospital Feb. 28 for “diagnostic tests,” the Vatican press office said, without providing specifics.