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

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my ...

Collegiate Professor of Engineering, University of Notre Dame. The views expressed in this commentary do not necessarily reflect those of Religion News Service.

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 ...

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.

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