Indeed, "during the leisure hours of vacation occasions for reading are plentiful," mused Pope Pius XII in a discourse on the ...

Jesus doesn't answer the question put to Him in this Sunday's Gospel. It profits us nothing to speculate on how many will be ...

These last few weeks, I have spent traveling in the missions of Ethiopia with Daria Braithwaite, our Mission Education ...

Pope Leo XIV paid a private visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Grace of Mentorella, high in the Monti Prenestini mountain range of central Italy. On his last full day in Castel ...

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- El Papa León XIV pidió a los católicos que observaran el 22 de agosto como día de oración y ayuno por la paz y la justicia, especialmente en Ucran ...

I was visiting a parish not my own when a young girl of about five greeted me. With a shy smile and the quiet encouragement of her family, she handed me a hand-colored greeting card welcoming me to he ...

Q: I'm retired and I volunteer with my parish to do the tech stuff to livestream some of the parish's Masses online. Sometimes I livestream funerals for people who have family members who can& ...

The promise, you see, always included you. Me, too. The promise of God is what I'm talking about, a promise innumerably repeated in the S ...

Ever since his brother was named pope, John Prevost hasn't been shy about talking to the press. Pope Leo XIV's first phone call with his brother went viral after a reporter captured i ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency tasked with enforcing laws prohibiting discrimination in hiring and employment, said Aug. 18 it has taken ...

CONCORD -- "How do you do this?" Jean Gifford was once asked about being a parish nurse, and she couldn't think of a simple answer. Gifford, better known as "Nurse Jean," has served as parish nurse at ...

Archbishop Richard G. Henning is encouraging all pastors in the Archdiocese of Boston to hold a special collection for relief efforts in Gaza. In a letter to the pastors dated Aug. 15, t ...