Our Lady of Sorrows

One of the Vatican’s top officials on the migration issue has said strict policies increase the risk of human trafficking, as the lack of safe and legal passages force many people to take more...

Only about half of the national bishops' conferences in the world have adopted complete, Vatican-approved guidelines for handling accusations of clerical sexual abuse and promoting child protection...

When Pope Francis visits Abu Dhabi Feb. 3-5, he will visit a land where interreligious tolerance is mandated by law; while Catholics in the United Arab Emirates count their blessings for that, the...

In two new documents on migration and human trafficking, the Vatican has emphasized the need to protect migrants and step up international collaboration and prosecutions of traffickers, while also...

A few decades of respectful Catholic-Jewish dialogue pale in comparison to "19 centuries of Christian anti-Judaism," Pope Francis said, so Catholics must continue to ask forgiveness and...