By John Grondelski | If I had a dollar for every priest likely to launch his Trinity Sunday sermon with, “This is a mystery,” I would be a rich man. The Blessed Trinity is a mystery, but that does...
By Rick Becker | “The patron saint provides a model of charity; we are assured of his intercession” (CCC 2156). Last Sunday, June 9, was the memorial of an obscure St. Richard – this one, a...
By Kathy Schiffer | Sunday is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. It’s so easy to take that for granted — to listen to Jesus in the Gospel, speaking about the Spirit and about his Father, with...
By Marge Fenelon | It’s been said about Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton that he had an obsession but was not obsessed. This remark was made by one of Fr. Peyton’s dearest friends, Father Arthur...
By Catholic News Agency | MENDOZA - Two priests accused of sexually abusing minors at a school for deaf children in Argentina will stand trial Aug. 5. The priests and a former employee at the...
Two more people claim to have been groped or sexually harassed by the papal envoy to France, Archbishop Luigi Ventura, who is already under fire for three similar charges.
Plaintive pleas and rousing, rhythmic recognitions of God's goodness filled the air at Rome's main synagogue as Israeli and Vatican officials celebrated 25 years of formal diplomatic relations.
Speaking to oil company executives, Pope Francis on Friday said that climate change “threatens the very future” of humanity, adding that the “doomsday predictions” can no longer be met with disdain.
Pope Francis told Jesuits in Romania that tensions and struggles within the Church have left it wounded and that the only path forward is through humble dialogue, not futile arguments.
In his message for the third Church-sponsored World Day of the Poor, Pope Francis said that today millions of men, women, young people and children are enslaved by “new forms of bondage.”