"I wanted all of us, inside or out, to have an opportunity to throw open the doors of our hearts and understand that hope ...

People gather in St. Peter’s Square to join Pope Francis in praying the Angelus on the feast of St. Stephen, Dec. 26, 2024.

At Holy Family Church in Artesia, Simbang Gabi was celebrated before dawn, the Misa de Gallo (Mass of the Rooster) starting ...

Prior to offering his blessing "urbi et orbi," Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine, the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria, and in ...

The pope opened the Jubilee Holy Doors praying that the Holy Spirit would soften hearts so that "enemies may speak to each ...

I want to recommend one for your reading in the New Year. He’s Father Matthias Joseph Scheeben (1835-1888), a German ...

The yearly service brings together Christian leaders and laity from several denominations to pray for unity among the ...

Cardinal Pizzaballa will make his solemn entry into Bethlehem, in the West Bank, where he will celebrate Christmas Eve Mass.

Hundreds of the city’s poor followed his coffin during his funeral procession, and within a few years a movement began to ...

"The Holy Father calls us to be signs of hope in a world which desperately needs it in this current moment!" wrote Bishop ...

The White House announced on Dec. 23 that those 37 individuals – who were all convicted of murder – will have their sentences ...

In a statement, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, Chicago's archbishop, expressed gratitude to Pope Francis for the "gift of these ...