The Virgin will conceive and give birth to a son and they will call Him Emmanuel, a name which means ‘God is with us’. In the final week of Advent the Church naturally focuses on the figure of ...

The congregation stay in their cars during Mass and hear Mass through their radios via closed-circuit transmission. (A PA system, they decided, would not help community relations.) Communion is ...

On the feast of the apostle Saint Matthew, Pope Francis arrived in the provincial capital of Holguin in eastern Cuba for the second public mass of his pastoral visit to Cuba. The city was buzzing ...

France’s interior minister on Saturday condemned threats made against Catholics taking part in a Marian procession in the western suburbs of Paris.

Churches are full of static Catholics SIR – Concerning the reported falling attendances in Church, I wonder if this may be a problem to do with training. Training may happen initially, but after ...

Christmas nativity scenes are a “domestic Gospel,” which helps to make the Holy Family present in one’s home, Pope Francis has said.

In his preface, Trower wrote that “In a sense, the sole subject of this book is the revelation of God: the efforts of its guardians to make it bear fruit in the present, and its vicissitudes at ...

A Texas priest under investigation for sexual abuse has disappeared, the Diocese of Dallas announced this week. Officials believe he may have fled to his native country, the Philippines.

Officers from the FBI have spoken to at least three foundation staff members over last several months, with enquiries focused on the role of Theodore McCarrick, who served as a board member until ...

The Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, took a strong stance against the push for same-sex marriage in his native Argentina, which nevertheless concluded with the approval ...