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Feeding more than 4,500 people every day is easy when you have reliable volunteers and staff, but St. Vincent de Paul serves even more during the holidays.

In a world in which people often pride themselves on “having no regrets,” it’s admitting we have a few, or eight, or 50.

Pope Francis' July 5-12 visit to Latin America will not take him to his native Argentina, but it will put him closely in touch with his Jesuit roots and with one of the main characteristics of his ministry as archbishop of Buenos Aires: direct contact with the poor, the sick and those striving to bring the Gospel to bear on social inequalities.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When the Vatican Congregation for Clergy developed guidelines a decade ago for handling cases of priests who father children, the first objective was to make it easier for those men to leave the priesthood to care for their children and be real dads, said the prefect of the congregation.

The Little Sisters of the Poor have received temporary protection from the federal contraception mandate until the Supreme Court decides whether or not it will hear their case. On Aug. 21, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Little Sisters will not be subject the to mandate’s requirements or the fines associated with resisting it. The court order lasts until the Supreme Court announces whether it will take up the sisters’ appeal. If the Court agrees to hear the case, the protection from the mandate will last until it issues a final ruling.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The act of bearing false witness to destroy someone is an attack against the body of the Church, Pope Francis said.

Looking for a New Year's resolution, no matter how informal? Does it involve exercise? Becoming a stronger Catholic? Good news! You can do both at once!

ROME (CNS) — Looking on the “bright side” or seeking the “silver lining” of something like a lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus is not naivete, but an exercise of one’s God-given will, said a U.S. professor locked down in Rome with his wife and son.

God did not come to the world with arrogance to impose his might; he offered his powerful love through a fragile child, Pope Francis said.

In his general audience talk, Pope Francis says there is no love without freedom and without freedom, there is no marriage.