El Papa Francisco y su Consejo Internacional de Cardenales continuaron sus debates sobre el papel de la mujer en la Iglesia, escuchando a mujeres expertas, incluida una profesora que habló sobre cómo la cultura impacta los roles y el estatus de las mujeres.

“Irene’s Vow” is a movie based on the real-life experiences of Catholic nurse Irene Gut Opdyke. Famed for her rescue of Jews, she received a special blessing from St. John Paul II who also invited her to a personal audience in 1995.

In discussing the removal or transfer of a pastor, Canon 1752 reads, ” … prae oculis habita salute animarum, quae in Ecclesia suprema semper lex esse debet” — in English, ” … keeping in mind the salvation of souls, which must always be the supreme law of the Church.”

Here are six perspectives on the Sign of the Cross that reveal why making it opens us to life-transforming graces.

Nigeria has remained a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa, but a network of Catholic Sisters of St. Louis at the Bakhita Empowerment center, a safehouse in Lagos, is determined to change that.

Pope Francis asked Catholics to get ready for the jubilee journey with a Year of Prayer and now, a few months after the year was officially announced, a kind of prayer prep-school is in session.

Supreme Knight Patrick E. Kelly said the need for lay Catholics to take part in the church’s evangelization is “especially urgent in our time” and is one of the three main duties that laypeople have in carrying out the Church’s mission.

Photos featured this week include a National March for Life in Warsaw, Poland, an immigration conference at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and more.