Illinois’ attorney general released the results of a sweeping investigation into allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy on Tuesday; investigators found that 451 clergy sexually abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950.

Pope Francis has sent one of his top sex crimes investigators to Bolivia at a time when the Andean nation is being shaken by an escalating pedophilia scandal involving priests.

A Reflection for Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter, by Simcha Fisher

The help Father Beotti “offered to many Jewish people persecuted by the Nazi-Fascists played a decisive role” in his death, according to the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.

Pope Francis will travel to Portugal for World Youth Day in the first week of August and include a stop at the popular Marian shrine in Fatima, the Vatican confirmed.

A Reflection for Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter, by Tim Reidy

I enjoyed being in "Succession," but should our church have been used for this abrasive show?

Pope Francis’ peace mission, which he first announced on April 30, now appears to be underway.

A Reflection for Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by Samantha Richardson

Debt ceiling negotiations are rankling some Catholic leaders.

The Catholic Church played a major role in bringing tobacco to Italy, which is still the number one producer of raw tobacco in the European Union today.

The guys caught up in gang violence were yearning for respect, as all people deserve, and gaining a grasp on their perspective was God’s lesson for me.

A Reflection for Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter, by James T. Keane

The Vatican said the driver was about 40 years old and was in a “serious state of psychophysical alteration."

as if you are a child lost on the water in a boat cast off from its lines

I am grateful for all the poets who submitted their work for the contest. Every year we get poems from all over the United States, and even across the world, about any number of topics.

I am a bishop, but before anything else, I am a human being who understands the severe toll of mental illness, especially when it is left untreated.

Life-threatening mental health concerns affecting U.S. teens have reached a crisis point, complicated by a laundry list of social issues.

The Earth is in trouble. How can religious traditions like Christianity be bearers of wisdom and help lay out a roadmap for ecological care of the planet?

In 'Sister Death,' Beatrice Marovich explores the connections between living and dying in a way that seeks to refute the concept of death as enemy while not accepting it as something that is good or desirable.