. . . Thanksgiving is still Thanksgiving even when or if it lacks the trappings we hope it will have. It is a reminder that ...

History has shown that collectively America's bishops have taken controversial stands that have helped animate and even shape the national discussion. Perhaps most noteworthy was their 1919 ...

Pope Leo XIV processes into St. Peter’s Basilica Nov. 3, 2025, to celebrate a memorial Mass for Pope Francis and all the cardinals and bishops who have died in the past year. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) ...

A delegation of clergy, religious sisters and laity, together with a Chicago auxiliary bishop, were barred for the second time in three weeks from bringing the Eucharist to those ...

President Donald Trump said Oct. 31 he would place Nigeria on a religious freedom watch list in response to violence in that country perpetuated against predominantly Christia ...

A drone view shows Christians departing Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Palmgrove, in Nigeria's Lagos state, after Mass Nov. 2, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump said Oct. 31 he would designate ...

The same day Pope Leo XIV proclaimed St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church, he also named the British saint patron of the Pontifical Urbanian University in Rome. In a doc ...

In a world filled with noise and constant motion, Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham, Massachusetts, is extending a rare invitation ...

The world is thirsting for peace and for an end to abuses of power and indifference to the rule of law, Pope Leo XIV said at ...

For the past 40 years, undocumented immigration has been fueled by a lack of legal avenues for immigrant workers to fill ...

Jn 2:13-22 Happy Church Day! As feast days go, this Sunday is one of the more unusual ones on the church calendar. We don't commemo ...

Jn 6:37-40 Forese had not been dead that long, not even five years. That's why Dante wondered how he'd made so much progress.