The ever-expanding protests over the epidemic of police violence and systemic racism in the United States, manifested most recently in the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, ...

The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin, has said everyone must cooperate fully with the new Northern Ireland Executive to ensure that proper reparation and outreach is ...

Three months after a deadly shooting in Minneapolis that left two students dead and injured 18 others as well as three adults, Archbishop Bernard Hebda, along with Auxiliary Bishops Kevin Kenney and ...

A Catholic archbishop said on Sunday that religious orders should not be scapegoated for the failures exposed by a report on Ireland's mother-and-baby homes. Archbishop Eamon Martin made the comment ...

Check this out at the Catholic News Service blog: Eucharistic adoration at the Vatican in reparation for abuse. VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is hosting two hours of eucharistic adoration “in reparation ...

The Catholic Church in Benue state has demanded for reparation for the destruction of its schools and hospitals by armed herdsmen who have been attacking parts of the state. The Bishop of Makurdi ...

Sorrow, outrage, shock are just a few of the emotions I have seen expressed across my social media pages these last few weeks. I have seen calls to the hierarchy to do something, to fix the problems ...

Some in the large congregation were deeply hurt. Some fumed, saying they held onto Catholic teachings, but saw their faith in the men leading the church disintegrating amid a cascade of allegations.

The Catholic Church’s sex-abuse scandal has reached such a fever pitch that its top officials are now compelled to act. Last week, Pope Francis expelled a priest and accepted the resignation of two ...

GUILFORD, Conn. — When the Archdiocese of Hartford released a list this year identifying 48 priests accused of sexual abuse, five of them had served at the same church: St. George’s, in the small ...