Jacques Berthieu, a French Jesuit (1838–96) and missionary in Madagascar, was canonized in Rome on Oct. 21 together with six other blessed.

Western nations must resist the pressure to “scapegoat, abandon, even kill, the elderly as a cost-cutting measure,” an Australian bishop said.

Some of Egypt’s Christians are concerned about Islamists in power, but there is greater freedom of speech than before the revolution.

In Guatemala young women are vulnerable to many forms of violence, according to the human rights office of the Archdiocese of Guatemala City.

A papal delegation of bishops, including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, will travel to the capital of war-torn Syria in late October.

Radical Islamists who seized northern Mali earlier this year are imposing an extremist version of Shariah law.

Why can the United States and the world community not do more to end Syria’s civil war?

People unaffiliated with any religion constitute nearly 20 percent of the American public, making them almost as numerous as Catholics.

Pope Benedict XVI called on Catholics to revive the “authentic spirit” of Vatican II by re-proposing the church’s teachings to an increasingly Godless world.