Jesus Christ's words in the Gospel reading for Jan. 18, "I am with you always until the end of the age," are critical as "an instruction for how to live in this broken world" and "bring goodness to it," the U.S. bishops'
Archbishop Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, blesses and seals the Washington basilica's entrance door as a Holy Door for the Catholic Church's Holy Year 2025, which has as its theme "Pilgrims of Hope."
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 14 urged his brother bishops and all the Catholic faithful to "continue to pray" when "peace seems so far away" in today's world.
"Our thoughts readily turn to the Holy Land, sacred to
Lillian Fallon, who has been writing and speaking on the intersection of faith and style since 2015, melds her experience in the fashion world with her knowledge of St. John Paul II's theology of the body.
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services will lead an early morning rosary online on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, and the public is invited to join him.
"What better way to start Veterans Day than to kneel and
Archbishop Andrew E. Bellisario of Anchorage-Juneau Oct. 12 encouraged the new shepherd of Fairbanks, Alaska, to "be a bishop in motion, going to your people throughout this boundless land."
Bishop Steven J. Maekawa, a Dominican, was ordained and installed as the seventh bishop
The Archdiocese of Hartford, Conn., welcomes new Coadjutor Archbishop Coyne with a Mass Oct. 9. He will serve alongside Archbishop Leonard P. Blair and will succeed him automatically when he retires.
Before he became Florida's sixth inmate to be executed in the state this year, convicted murderer Michael Duane Zack concluded his final statement Oct. 3 with a message: "To Governor DeSantis and the Clemency Board: I love you. I forgive you. I
"There's a map for that!"
That might have been the 16th century's version of today's "app" mantra for pilgrims in Rome making their way from one to another of the Eternal City's seven pilgrim churches guided by a printed map.
One such map from
The late Robert Bennett, a high-profile Washington attorney and founding member of the U.S. bishops' National Review Board on clergy sex abuse, was remembered at his Sept. 17 funeral Mass for "his devotion to his family and to the care of his