When Catholics venerate saints like Jesus' mother, the Virgin Mary, they call on that individual saint to answer their prayers. Other Christians hold Mary in high regard but do not agree that she or ...

At 99, Cardinal Alexandre do Nascimento may have lived to his ripe old age. But Angola is mourning, largely because he had ...

On the occasion of Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo’s Oct. 1 inauguration as president of Mexico, the Catholic Church made several requests to the new government.

Editor’s Note: Ahead of Respect Life Month, the pro-life committee chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging ...

Addressing Proposal 1/ERA, Bishop Salvatore R. Matano points out that the proposed amendment to the New York constitution ...

Three years after being approved by the U.S. Catholic bishops, updates to the ritual texts for distribution of holy Communion outside of Mass and for Eucharistic adoration will take effect. The revise ...

Thierry Moser, Catholic priest and exorcist, has a twin mission: to ease people’s torment through prayer — and challenge old ...

Election year language often involves mudslinging, name-calling, taunts, and insinuations. We say we want our politicians to tell us their policies and proposals. We complain that they hardly ever art ...

The final Roman session of the Synod on Synodality will open with a spiritual retreat and a ceremony in which the assembly ...

Often it can be difficult to visibly see or feel hope in our midst. That is where this year's season theme — "to hope and act ...

Christian wisdom discerns what is important and what is not, that God's will is more important than common sense. This wisdom ...