A priest who was removed as an Archdiocese of Washington exorcist is relaunching his nonprofit deliverance ministry, while remaining a priest in good standing in his home diocese.

Since Pope Leo spoke against the mass detention of immigrants last year, the U.S. Catholic hierarchy has begun to move in new ...

In today’s Gospel reading from Matthew, Jesus teaches about the importance of collective prayer. When one person asks God for something, God (of course) listens. But Jesus highlights here that when a ...

Find today’s readings here. Reading the Scripture selections for today—both the ordinary ones and the optional readings for the Feast of St. Clare of Assisi—I’m struck by two intertwined themes: those ...

A showdown over vaccines between Catholic school officials in Florida and the state’s attorney general this week revived ...

Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims before his weekly general audience inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Aug. 5, 2026. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media. Pope Leo XIV will return to Latin America ...

As prominent prelates clash over the traditional Latin Mass, Pope Leo XIV’s response may reveal his deepest instincts about authority, unity and tradition.

James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan trilogy in the 1930s set him up as an enemy of a church that was aghast at his portrayal of ...

Pope Leo XIV traveled to Assisi Aug. 5 to celebrate the Jubilee Year of St. Francis with 2,500 young people, urging them to ...

In today’s Gospel Jesus is speaking figuratively about the power of faith (right?) when he suggests that even faith as tiny ...

On this 250th anniversary, we celebrate our democracy and our achievements as a nation, but we can never forget that it was ...