A priest carries Communion to the altar as Pope Francis celebrates a Mass for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul at the St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican June 29, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) ...

Carrying the cross means more than bearing personal suffering -- it means stepping into the pain of others and walking beside them, Pope Francis wrote at the start of Holy Week.

Catholic groups have criticized Spain's bishops for consenting to government redevelopment of a key national memorial complex near Madrid, amid fears of a continuing church decline acros ...

Jesuit Father Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits, speaks at a news conference in Rome April 10, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) ...

Pope Francis' surprise visit to St. Peter's Basilica to pray and see ongoing restoration work is a clear sign that his condition is improving, the Vatican press office said. The ...

Maximilian Glamuzina first learned about Blessed Carlo Acutis during a school Mass, when his pastor preached about the teenager's life and model of holiness. Glamuzina, no ...

By the close of today's long Gospel, the work of our redemption will have been accomplished, the new covenant will be written in the blood of His broken body hanging on the Cross at the place called ...

In the Diocese of Chipata, Zambia, the faithful of St. John the Baptist outstation gather midweek to hold a special ...

Easter Sunday is both the end and the beginning: the end of the Paschal Triduum and the beginning of the great 50 days of the ...

When reading the Bible, it does not take much insight to recognize that there is something within us all, something very ...

Twenty years is a long time. But somehow, the death of Pope John Paul II isn't easy for me to place on a timeline. History is elastic when we don't read it in books. The events we remember can ...

Easter collection for clergy Every day, I get to provide support and care for the priests who have dedicated their lives to ...