HARTFORD, Conn. — An upcoming conference in Connecticut will offers Catholic leaders in medicine and ministry the practical and pastoral tools to reach out to people with same-sex attraction while ...

COMMENTARY: St. John Paul II was convinced that young people were capable of an integral and radical Christian life. South Korean pilgrims celebrate with Pope Francis after the Holy Father announced ...

Sometimes, YouTube makes good recommendations. Last week, it directed me to a thirty-year-old debate between the now-late Cardinal George Pell and a Jesuit priest, Father Bill Uren. It was a gripping ...

A 600-acre community is being developed in east Texas with the vision of becoming “a physical and spiritual home for Christians to protect, preserve, and proclaim all of the chief truths and teachings ...

AT THE PIVOT OF HIS PAPACY A QUARTER century ago, Pope Paul VI issued his most controversial encyclical, "Humanae Vitae," which reaffirmed the church's ban on contraception. It also set off a ...

Truth is splendid indeed, as Pope John Paul II proclaims in the title of his latest encyclical, “Veritatis Splendor.” However, of course, the pope doesn’t stop there. In his 183-page encyclical on ...

Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, speaks at the Holy See press office, Jan. 18, 2016. (Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNA.) Listen ROME — In ...

Buenos Aires (Fides Service) - As part of various initiatives to mark the tenth anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical Veritatis Splendor, the John Paul II chair of the Pontifical Catholic ...

Washington. — “Veritatis Splendor” (“The Splendor of Truth”) Pope John Paul II’s new encyclical on the moral life, is a bold reaffirmation of the human capacity to know the right thing and do the ...

Murcia (Fides Service) – As part of celebrations to mark the 25th year of Pope John Paul II’s pontificate, the Sant’ Antonio Catholic University in Murcia (Spain) has organised an international ...

Pope John Paul II’s new encyclical was being especially welcomed by U.S. Catholics seeking a clearer moral compass but was troubling for those who say that moral choices depend on circumstances. That ...