Jonathan Luxmoore, Catholic News Service

Pope urges church leaders to recognize errors over clergy sex abuse

Francis calls on bishops at child protection conference to convert sorrow into concrete pathways of reform

Catholics in Belarus welcome new archbishop amid continued repression

Pope Francis named Auxiliary Bishop Iosif Staneuski of Grodno as archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev Sept. 14

Polish cardinal, blind Franciscan who knew each other beatified together

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski was beatified in Warsaw on Sept. 12, 2021, alongside Mother Elisabeth Rosa Czacka

Bishop says separatists bar Latin-rite priests from eastern Ukraine

Bishop Sobilo calls on Western church leaders to speak out amid new fears of violence

Bishops say Spain trying to 'dismantle Christian worldview'

They say an attempt is underway to erase distinctions between truth and falsehood, reality and fiction, good and evil

Pope has used diplomats to create culture of encounter, says US author

Vatican diplomacy has diverged sharply from US foreign policy under Pope Francis, according a new book

Benedictines vow to stay at Spanish civil war site

The monks have long overseen the site, located in the Valley of the Fallen near Madrid

Belarusian president warns against singing decades-old hymn

President Alexander Lukashenko cautions Catholics to avoid a hymn that has been a symbol for anti-regime protests

Anger as disgraced Polish archbishop is elected mayor

Vatican ordered Archbishop Glodz to live outside his former archdiocese and avoid religious celebrations or lay meetings

Red Cross nurses to be beatified as martyrs in Spain

Bishop Fernández González said the three women had clung to their crosses and forgiven their executioners

France to mark 150th anniversary of anti-religious uprising

Paris Commune's proclamation in 1871 sought to erase the Catholic Church from the public domain

Belarus priests denied access to help political prisoners

Christian charity accuses the country's rulers of using the coronavirus as an excuse for refusing pastoral access

A despairing cry for help in a Vietnam field hospital

Cambodian court convicts 14 activists over protests

Climate refugees find safety in Bangladesh's shanty towns

Filipino priests see red over seaside trip

Hindu group in India insists on idol worship at Catholic school

Daughter of Indonesia's first president becomes a Hindu