An Indian court has sentenced two Hindu men to two years' imprisonment for the destruction of a century-old statue of Jesus Christ at a British-era Catholic church in Ambala in the northern state of ...

Cardinal Isao Kikuchi warned that mass enthusiasm, when shaped by unchecked desires, can quickly turn destructive, pointing to the Gospel account of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem and its stark reversal ...

By Hannah Brockhaus Pope Leo XIV will celebrate the liturgies of Holy Week and the Easter Triduum for the first time as pope this week. Palm Sunday marks the start of the one of t ...

On the threshold of Holy Week and amid the U.S. and Israel-Iran war gaining new fronts, and harvesting new victims daily, the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem issued an annual Easter ...

Indonesian — spoken by almost 300 million people across an archipelago of 17,000 islands stretching more than 5,000 kilometers west of mainland Malaysia to just north of Australia — has been ...

Being pro-life means standing for every innocent life, not just those in the womb. It means grieving for the families hiding in basements, for the children growing up under the sound of gunfire, and ...

Pope Leo XIV presides at Mass on Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion, and reflects on Jesus as the King of Peace who rejects war and refuses to listen to the prayers of those who wage war.

By Francesca Pollio Fenton A new audio podcast is bringing the Gospels to life through a new kind of experience. “ The Christ ,” a four-part audio dramatization of Jesus’ life — from his birth in the ...

Pope Leo XIV decries the fact that many Christians in the Middle East will be unable to celebrate Holy Week rites, urging everyone to remember the many people who share in Christ's suffering as the ...

In his Palm Sunday meditation in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, recalls that just as Jesus wept over Jerusalem for failing to recognize ...

Pope Leo XIV greets residents of the Principality of Monaco as he begins his Apostolic Journey, and encourages the small European nation to place its material prosperity at the service of humanity, ...

Four young residents of the microstate had been chosen to ask Pope Leo a question. The first was Benjamin, a 22-year-old student and a practicing Catholic, who asked him for advice on “remaining ...