The 85-year-old pope has been experiencing severe knee pain for months and told an Italian newspaper May 3 that his doctor had advised rest and “injections” into the knee.

The Christian vocation is for all members of the church to work together and show that one human family united in love is not a utopia but is the reason God created humanity, Pope Francis said.

The leaders of religious orders around the world are taking very seriously the idea of making the Catholic Church more “synodal” — a place where everyone is called to prayer, discernment and responsibility for the church and its mission.

The USCCB announced to staff May 4 a dramatic reorganization of its communications department, including the closure of the Washington and New York offices of CNS.

Cientos de personas, incluyendo muchos venezolanos que viven en Estados Unidos, llegaron a este suburbio de Fort Lauderdale el 1 de mayo para saludar al cardenal de Caracas, Venezuela, y para ver las reliquias del beato José Gregorio Hernández, conocido cariñosamente como el “doctor de los pobres”, a quien el papa Francisco beatificó en 2021.

En medio de los conflictos entre las empresas mineras y las comunidades en América Latina, los católicos deben apoyar a las personas cuyas vidas y medios de subsistencia están amenazados por la contaminación y las violaciones de los derechos humanos, expresaron trabajadores de la iglesia.

A beatified teenager’s passionate love of the Eucharist was put on display for a group of New Jersey Catholic school students as U.S. Catholics begin a three-year eucharistic revival.

Sister Thea Bowman, one of six Black Catholics known as a “Servant of God” now that their sainthood causes are being advanced, has plenty of lessons to impart from her life to Catholics today.