UPDATE: Pope Benedict is undergoing a procedure under local anesthesia to set his wrist, the spokesman of Parini Hospital in Aosta told the Italian news agency ANSA. ANSA also said the pope asked to be treated like any other patient and had to wait ...

As we approach the Dec. 12 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patroness of the Americas, it’s worth mentioning that a parish in Allentown, Pa., is home to a national shrine dedicated to her.  The National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe at...

Pope John Paul II meets Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989 (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano) VATICAN CITY  — The release of a transcript of the 1989 meeting between Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse of one...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican issued a statement following Pope Benedict XVI’s 90-minute meeting today with Vatican officials and Irish church leaders, saying the pope shared the “sense of outrage, betrayal and shame” felt by Irish Catholics over...

In the light of a report highly critical of the way Catholic leaders in Dublin handled sex abuse claims, members of the Irish bishops’ conference suspended all regular business at their winter general meeting yesterday in Maynooth to discuss the...

Father Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA, wants the federal government to do a better job of making sure people displaced by natural disasters get their lives back to normal. Testifying Dec. 2 to the Senate Ad Hoc Subcommittee on...