DUBLIN (CNS) -- Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, Northern Ireland, has hailed political leader John Hume as a "paragon of peace" for his key role in bringing an end to the conflict in Northern Ireland. [...]
SAO PAULO (CNS) -- The draft of a letter signed by Brazilian bishops and scheduled to be presented to the executive committee of the bishops' conference is causing an uproar in the Brazilian media and [...]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican distanced itself again from any involvement in the Spanish government's decision to exhume the remains of the country's late dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco. The statement, released by the Vatican [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The memes mocking the Salvadoran cardinal spread almost as fast as the virus. After calling for transparency and dialogue in the country, Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez, auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, found [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Salvadoran Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez called for transparency and dialogue and for political parties to find common ground as disagreements between government branches led to the expiration of COVID-19 restrictions even as [...]
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington June 2 before he signed an executive order back at the White House to expand U.S. support [...]
BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Regulations for the reopening of religious institutions developed by a Maryland county that seemed to disallow the distribution of holy Communion were withdrawn after church leaders voiced opposition. Public officials in Howard [...]
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis began his morning Mass by praying for political leaders and calling on them to put the welfare of their people above their party's interests during the coronavirus pandemic. "We [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The call to solidarity in Catholic social teaching is "an X-ray in our society that exposes the inequalities in our society, the fragmentation," said author and columnist David Brooks during an April [...]
NEW YORK (CNS) -- Gerrymandering, the drawing of district lines with the aim of gaining electoral advantage, has long been an element of American political life. In fact, the man from whose name the term [...]
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- President Donald Trump may be as divisive to religionists as he seems to be to other groups in American society, as indicated by the latest Pew Research Center survey. "We're seeing a [...]
SAN DIEGO (CNS) -- Bishop Robert W. McElroy of San Diego, in a Feb. 6 speech at the University of San Diego, said "the drive to label a single issue preeminent" in the 2020 election [...]