YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Bishops in the largest Catholic country in Africa are warning voters ahead of national elections next month to avoid the siren song of tribalism, nepotism, vote-buying and self-interest. Voters in the Democratic Republic of Congo go to the polls December 20 to vote for a president. President Félix [...]

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Despite continuing to suffer from what the Vatican has described as a lung inflammation that’s forced him to curtail his schedule and skip an international trip, Pope Francis nevertheless met Wednesday with members of the Scottish soccer team Celtic on Wednesday, a day after they played [...]

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – Members of the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Holy See visited the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in London this week to see the support being given to people displaced by the current war in Ukraine. Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski, Eparchial Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the [...]

The Francis pontificate appears to be entering a delicate phase, fraught with challenges both from within and without. While some of those issues clearly aren’t the pope’s fault, including the health scare with which he’s presently dealing, others do seem more self-inflicted. To illustrate the point, nothing compares to rumors that [...]

BALTIMORE — As Charles Richardson gradually lost his eyesight to complications from diabetes, certain childhood memories haunted him even more. The Catholic priest appeared vividly in his mind’s eye — the one who promised him a spot on a travel basketball team, took him out for burgers and helped him with [...]