Nearly 1,000 church leaders — lay and religious — from Latin America and the Caribbean called for a more inclusive and synodal church, one that pays attention to people's realities, opens increased ...

A new survey indicates that many Catholics in Latin America and the U.S. favor allowing women to become priests, with a number also supporting marriage for priests, birth control, same-sex marriage ...

When one church door closes, an internet window opens. Social distancing measures have shuttered church doors and emptied pews across Latin America, leaving Easter services this year to be ...

The original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe impressed on the cloak of St. Juan Diego is seen in the basilica in Mexico City Feb. 13, 2016. (Credit: CNS photo/Paul Haring.) Listen SÃO PAULO, Brazil – ...

Pope Francis welcoming the presidency of CELAM Feb. 19, 2022, in the Vatican. (Credit: CELAM web/Vatican Dicastery for Communications.) Listen ROSARIO, Argentina – Following a historic meeting of the ...

In 1968, a group of Latin American bishops gathered at Medellín, Colombia, to challenge the Roman Catholic Church to expand its definition of charity to include the advocacy of social justice for the ...

“We exhort you all to lift up high the torch of Latin which is even today a bond of unity among peoples of all nations.” —Pope St. John Paul II Ancient Christian funerary plaque in Santa Maria degli ...

Pope Leo XIV’s election marks a historic moment: the first pope from an English-speaking country, and the first from the United States. Even more significant than these “firsts,” I believe, is a ...