Each of the readings this Sunday discloses how encounters with God and what is asked of us often manifest quite differently ...

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 ...

It was the second storm of the day. My former secretary and good friend forwarded me a text from her daughter-in-law. It ...

Pope Leo is one of many popes to respond to technological change by drawing on a Catholic principle called ‘subsidiarity.’ ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City Aug. 5, 2026. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Returning to his weekly general audiences ...

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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 ...

A Washington state bishop is calling for prayer as wildfires have torched entire neighborhoods, leading to thousands of evacuations and hundreds of destroyed buildings.

We know what happens to children that go to court without an attorney. In one word, it is deportation,” said the director of Estrella del Paso.

But the cardinal who leads the Vatican’s liturgy office said Pope Leo XIV would not be lifting restrictions on the old Mass.