Readings: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29 Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a Luke 14:1, 7-14 We meet him first as a young man in the 1870s. He will not live to die an old man. He is a son of the aristocracy. How many ...

This was before 24-hour news, before television itself. What there was to see was limited to a British Pathé newsreel, which people would have watched in movie theaters before the main feature. This ...

Activists pour into D.C. on the anniversary of the passage of Roe v. Wade. The anti-abortion rights movement is at a critical moment, motivated in large part by conservative justices on the Supreme ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass for the solemnity of Pentecost in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday with international pilgrims belonging to new Church movements, associations, and communities celebrating ...

Greetings to the pilgrims who came on the occasion of the Jubilee of the Confraternities! Brothers and Sisters, I greet all of you with a heart full of gratitude at the beginning of the ministry that ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Catholic University professor Kurt Martens talked about the significance of the first American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV.

VATICAN CITY — The day after Pope Leo XIV emerged from the conclave as the first American pontiff in history, he headed back into the Sistine Chapel to celebrate the liturgy with the cardinals who ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV touched on faith, power and corruption in the homily of the first Mass he celebrated after being elected pontiff. Here are some highlights. The first U.S.-born pope in ...

'We are here to invoke the help of the Holy Spirit, to implore his light and strength so that the Pope elected may be he whom the Church and humanity need at this difficult and complex turning point ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — At a church in a Roman suburb on Sunday (May 4), Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa preached on a story from the Gospel of John in which Jesus’ followers in ...

On the Sunday before the conclave begins, a good many cardinals will visit their “titular churches” in Rome. This Sunday they will have a Gospel text that should inspire their preaching as they ready ...

One of Pope Francis’ dying wishes, as proclaimed by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re at his funeral on Saturday in Rome, where hundreds of thousands of mourners came to honor the “People’s Pope,” was ...