Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who instructed his followers to “suffer little children” is therefore now better known for making children suffer: in France alone an estimated 200,000 children were abused by priests between 1950 and 2020.

It comes after an update released yesterday said the Pontiff, 88, remained in a "critical" condition but has not presented any further respiratory crises.

This small park used to be home to the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, served by the first openly Black priest.

Pope Francis was on the minds of everyone who came to mass at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in North Hollywood Sunday morning, including Cardinal Roger Mahony.

Migration in the Americas was one of the conference's key topics because it is a fundamental pastoral need shared throughout the continent, said conference organizer and University of San Diego professor Victor Carmona.