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Delivering a July 21 keynote address at a gala dinner in Rome sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative, Alito said that at first he did not plan on providing examples of criticisms to decisions handed down by foreign courts.

A federal judge in Kentucky July 26 dismissed defamation lawsuits filed against five media outlets by a former Covington Catholic High School student and his family over their coverage of an incident that occurred after the 2019 March for Life that quickly went viral.

The Talitha Kum anti-trafficking network was making the "Nuns Healing Hearts" photo exhibition available online on its website, talithakum.info, starting July 30, the day the United Nations has dedicated to raising awareness about the battle against human trafficking.

By 1922, the film industry, which had begun to migrate from the East Coast to Hollywood about a decade earlier, was well-established and thriving. A century later, many of the movies released that year have perished. But some have survived while others have been rediscovered or restored.

When Bishop Sergio Pérez de Arce was appointed apostolic administrator of the Chilean diocese of Chillán, 250 miles south of Santiago, he had the difficult task of succeeding a bishop removed by Pope Francis in 2018 following allegations of sexual abuse.

Every papal trip is unique, but some are more alike than others. As Pope Francis moves through a five-day outing to Canada this week, interesting parallels have emerged to another historic voyage: Pope John Paul II’s March 2000 trip to the Holy Land, the highlight of which was the Polish pontiff leaving behind a note of apology in Jerusalem’s Western Wall for centuries of anti-Semitism.

Pope Francis Thursday asked forgiveness for the sexual abuse of children at church-run residential schools and vowed “never again,” building on an earlier historic apology made the day after his arrival in Canada.

Vatican News' Editorial Director explores the road map charted by Pope Francis' speeches in Canada in light of Pope St. Paul VI's Evangelii nuntiandi and his own Evangelii Gaudium.

Pope meets with Canada's Jesuit confreres in Québec on his last day in Canada for a private moment of conversation, already a tradition during his Apostolic Journeys.

Ahead of his departure from Quebec, Pope Francis meets with a delegation of indigenous peoples to express appreciation for his welcome to Canada, saying that he hopes to have contributed to the path of reconciliation and healing.

En una entrevista concedida a Vatican News, el prelado de la ciudad ártica destaca cómo el Papa, con su visita, pretende reafirmar la importancia de vivir en paz y en el signo de la reconciliación.

La hermana Anne Falola nos cuenta cómo su sueño de convertirse en una "heroica misionera, admirada por todos, se vio súbitamente truncado" y cómo se convirtió en una oportunidad para encontrar su verdadera vocación misionera.

La de hoy es una jornada llena de compromisos y emociones, la última de la peregrinación penitencial del Papa Francisco a Canadá sobre el tema de "Caminar juntos"

Preguntas y respuestas sobre el viaje y la realidad canadiense en el habitual encuentro con los hermanos que forman parte de la Compañía de Jesús en Canadá, unas horas antes del traslado a Iqualit.

La hoja de ruta trazada por los discursos de Francisco en Canadá tras la Evangelii nuntiandi de Pablo VI y la Evangelii gaudium

Pope Francis arrived in Quebec Wednesday, where he reiterated his apology to the country’s Indigenous peoples for the Catholic Church’s historic role in the “violent opposition” of their culture and condemned both new and old forms of colonization.

The Catholic Church in Chile today resembles a lighthouse with a broken lightbulb — the bishops have lost all credibility — and the Vatican has seemingly abandoned efforts to fix it.

Proposed changes to the Affordable Care Act that were announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on July 25, are “a violation of religious freedom and bad medicine,” according to multiple U.S. bishops’ conference chairmen.