Kansas City Chiefs fans are looking forward to a Super Bowl victory parade Feb. 14 -- but for Catholics, who mark Ash Wednesday that same day, "first place always goes to the Lord Jesus and what he's done," said Bishop James V.
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In a letter addressed to "my Jewish brothers and sisters in Israel," Pope Francis expressed his heartbreak at the violence unleashed by the Hamas attack on Israel in October and he repeated the Catholic Church's condemnation of all
LOS ANGELES (OSV News) -- Five years ago, Rosy Oros lay comatose in a hospital bed in Mexico -- some 1,500 miles away from home -- after experiencing complications from a medical procedure that had taken a drastic toll on her body
Reflect One of the most difficult lines in Scripture to hear, especially when you’re not really in the mood for it, is Saint Paul’s instruction to the Thessalonians, “Rejoice always” (1 Thes 5:16). Does he really mean always? As in always always?
The third annual Outreach gathering of LGBTQ+ Catholics was held at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University over the weekend.
The conference, which launched in 2021, has each year been encouraged by the Holy Father who this year sent "best regards" to
Nicaraguan regime freezes bank accounts of dioceses nationwide in another wave of Church persecution
Nicaragua has frozen the bank accounts of dioceses nationwide as the regime of President Daniel Ortega escalates its persecution of the Catholic Church with accusations of theft and money laundering.
Bill Dodds reminds us that “to say something even remotely kind to, or about, those “others” is giving aid and comfort to the enemy … Being kind is pretty much exactly what Jesus asked his followers to do. Asks us to do.
Family Theater Productions is marking its 75th anniversary with just one event, a dinner at a Hollywood hotel April 27, because the folks there are just too busy to do more.
Family Theater wants to start production on, among other things, an animated
Pope Francis praised his predecessor's courage in denouncing the danger of people no longer respecting or understanding the sacredness of human life.
Pope Francis highlighted retired Pope Benedict XVI's insistence that Europe's renewal comes through its respect for every human life.
The pope's remarks
Bishop Daniel Jenky, C.S.C., of the Diocese of Peoria, Illinois announced that he received notification from the Vatican today that the Holy Father, Pope Francis, has called for Venerable Servant of God Fulton J. Sheen’s Beatification on December 21, 2019.