Someday another generation will look back upon us with the same moral clarity with which we ponder the slaveholders of the 19th century. What will they see?

A canonical commission established by Pope Francis proposed changes to 34 canons of the Code of Canon Law in light of the Final Document of the 2021-2024 synod on synodality. “In the long term, ...

CWN Editor's Note: The Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life announced that a penal tribunal, as well as an appeals tribunal, found Father Carlos Miguel Buela ...

Pope Leo XIV told a gathering of artists and curators that “the Church looks upon you with esteem, gratitude and hope; that she needs you, and that she wishes to walk alongside you, so that together ...

CWN Editor's Note: The relics of the Holy Crib in the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major will be temporarily moved to a side chapel closer to the faithful, during the restoration of the reliquary and ...

CWN Editor's Note: At a press conference on his flight from France to Rome, Pope Leo XIV defended his willingness to speak out on behalf of the right to life. “I went primarily to preach the Gospel, ...

CWN Editor's Note: An Australian court released a deeply disturbing video of Bishop Christopher Saunders grooming a young man. Police installed cameras in the prelate’s home during a four-year ...

Pope Leo XIV departed from Lourdes (video) and flew to Metz (video) on September 28, the final day of his apostolic journey to France. In Metz, French religious leaders issued an appeal for peace and ...

CWN Editor's Note: A man arrested outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on the day of the Red Mass last year was sentenced to 70 months in prison. Louis Geri assembled 100 ...

Pope Leo XIV visited the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris and delivered a wide-ranging reflection on education, culture, peace, ...

CWN Editor's Note: Fourteen men entered the seminary in Baltimore this year, bringing the total number of archdiocesan seminarians to 66. The growth in seminarians “has not been sudden,” said ...

Pope Leo XIV visited the Institut Catholique of Paris this morning and met with members of the Provincial Synodal Assembly, as well as with a group of catechumens and neophytes (video). As he made his ...