St. Callistus Roman Catholic Church

In County Wicklow, Ireland, three young men decided to sidestep the secular Christmas season tradition of visiting 12 pubs and instead visited 12 different churches for Sunday Mass.

Ex-CIA veteran James Olson defended espionage as “moral” at a Catholic leadership summit.

The Catholic Church has officially opened the cause for sainthood of Belgian immigrant Adele Brice, an illiterate woman who had visions of the Blessed Mother.

Around 70,000 young people from across Mexico made the pilgrimage on Jan. 31 to Christ the King monument in Guanajuato state, in what became one of the largest youth pilgrimages in recent years.

The bishops called for related policies to recognize “the inherent dignity of every human person.”

The pontiff urged consecrated men and women to witness to God’s presence in a world where faith and daily life often drift apart.

Religious freedom advocates addressed how personal anecdotes and persistence are the keys to help leaders promote religious freedom globally.

Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, the retired archbishop of L’Aquila, succeeds Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the retired archbishop of Vienna.

“I told him about the abuse,” David Ryan said. “I did get a feeling of being listened to and being understood.”

The plan threatens to harden a decades-old split between the traditionalist group and the Vatican.