Vanessa Dougnac, La Croix's correspondent in India, was forced by authorities to leave the country, where she had worked as a journalist for 25 years. (Image: OLIVIER BALEZ) At 5:15 PM, a ...

The file is suspended. The Catholic Church will not beatify Luisa Piccarreta, an Italian mystic known for her spiritual exercises centered on union with the will of God On January 24, Bishop ...

A spectacle is unfolding at the Halle de la Machine, located in Toulouse’s Montaudran district, in southern France. Fresh from the western French town of Clisson, where it was displayed at a ...

The eighteenth century composition “The Council of Nicaea,” by F. Pavlovskyi, I. Maksimovych, and A. Galik and others. In Gate Church of the Trinity (Kyiv Monastery of the Caves). (Photo by H ...

Pope Francis would often share a witty remark with his visitors to talk about one of the main objectives set for him by the electing cardinals in 2013. “Reforming Rome,” Francis used to say ...

More than a century and a half ago, Christian missionaries from the West brought the Gospel message of Jesus Christ to the peoples of Africa. One of the inherent weaknesses of this evangelization ...

The convocation of the Synod on Synodality will stand as an important milestone in the papacy of Pope Francis. One can safely say that the notion of synodality is a key pillar of his pastoral ...

The early moves of any new pope are closely watched and widely interpreted. What will he do? What will he decide? At the Vatican, people are slowly getting to know the successor to Francis.

Since bishops have no children, though one could sarcastically point to more than a few exceptions in church history, apostolic succession refers not to a legal inheritance, but to the human chain ...

In his recent apostolic letter, Desiderio desideravi, Pope Francis addresses a fundamental religious problem of modern humanity, especially in the global north: symbols are no longer symbolic.

Pope Francis addressed a joint meeting of the United States Congress in 2015. (Photo: U.S. Capitol/Wikimedia Commons) For Augustine as well as for Thomas, the only true love is the love of God ...

J. P. Grayland, a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Palmerston North (New Zealand), currently visiting professor at the University of Tübingen (Germany). If we are witnessing the moral collapse ...