A key part of a jubilee in the Bible was releasing prisoners, and Catholics today can join a global campaign to press for the ...

Leaders of the Catholic Church in Nigeria expressed deep sorrow at the death of several people at one of the church's ...

Days after speaking with Pope Francis, President Joe Biden announced Dec. 23 that he would commute most existing federal ...

In approaching the comic adventure "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" (Paramount), viewers will likely be expecting to witness more of ...

Leading the recitation of the Angelus prayer from inside the chapel of his residence because of a cold, Pope Francis nevertheless blessed the baby Jesus figurines children and adults will put in their ...

JERUSALEM (OSV News) -- "You have become the light of our Church in the entire world," Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa told ...

Familial strife has been around the days of Adam and Eve. But today, it increasingly seems to manifest itself in family ...

Members of the Haitian National Police carry the casket of Mario Jean-Louis, a police officer who was killed in a confrontation with gang members, during a funeral service in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, ...

The Teamsters union began a strike at U.S. Amazon facilities Dec. 19 at the height of the online holiday shopping season to ...

Several hundred people gathered at Magdeburg Cathedral in the evening of Dec. 21 for an ecumenical prayer service to remember ...

During a Dec. 20 Russian missile strike on Kyiv, Catholic St. Nicholas church, a significant architectural monument of the ...

Just four states were responsible for 76% of U.S. executions that took place in 2024, says a new year-end report by the Death ...