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England and Wales face "the very real threat" of assisted suicide becoming law, the bishops warned Catholics on the eve of the introduction of new bill to legalize the practice.

A congressional panel, during a May 18 hearing, weighed the possibility of a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing to call attention to China's long-standing human rights abuses.

Indian Jesuits have petitioned the National Human Rights Commission to examine the health of a jailed 84-year-old priest following suspicions that he has contracted COVID-19.

Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory led a recitation of rosary May 17, imploring Mary to "entrust to her Son" all those affected by the pandemic.

We have all heard the adage "April showers bring May flowers," but for Catholics, there's something about Mary this month.

When popes were king, they ordered all their subjects in the Papal States to be vaccinated, using punishments and rewards to convince the hesitant and making sure the poor and the prisoners were inoculated as well.

The work of Georgetown University and the Jesuits in reckoning with the history of owning and selling enslaved people may hold lessons for the rest of the Catholic Church and American society, said several panelists at an April 29 discussion at the university.

Truong Van Lenh contracted tuberculosis from fellow inmates while he was serving a nine-year sentence for drug trafficking.

The sainthood causes of seven men and women -- including the hermit Blessed Charles de Foucauld and the Indian martyr Devasahayam Pillai -- cleared their final hurdle May 3 during an "ordinary public consistory," a meeting of the pope, cardinals and promoters of sainthood causes that formally ends the sainthood process.

The global Catholic Church coming together to pray for an end to the coronavirus pandemic represents the hope and faith of the people of God and how they find solace and strength together with Mary, said a theological expert in Mariology.