By Tito Edwards | Agnostic Converts On the Spot While Pope Francis Blesses World During Urbi et Orbi Amid Pandemic – ChurchPOP +1 Why Catholics Can Believe in Evolution: Adam & Eve Given Souls ...
By Matt D’Antuono | On Aug. 9, 1173, the foundation stones were laid for a freestanding bell tower, known as a campanile, for a cathedral in Italy. By 1178, during the construction of the second...
By Joseph Pearce | The sordid life of Jeffrey Epstein serves to highlight the decadence of the deplorable epoch in which we find ourselves, as do the suspicious circumstances surrounding his death...
By Jim Graves | King Kamehameha III donated land for the first and most famous of Hawaii’s Catholic churches, the Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, dedicated in 1843. Located in downtown...
By Marge Fenelon | This is an amazing time for the entire world. Even amid the hardship of the COVID-19 pandemic, it still is an amazing world. Despite the illness, isolation and fear, we have much...
Friends, on this Palm Sunday, Matthew’s magnificent Gospel of the Passion bids us to reflect on the seriousness of sin. To be sure, the Gospel proclaimed by the first Christians involves the glorious...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With people forced to stay home, even during Holy Week, because of the coronavirus pandemic, the archbishop of Turin has announced a special online...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- With a small procession down the vast and empty central nave of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis began the first of a series of...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The number of Masses, Stations of the Cross, meditations and other devotions being livestreamed by dioceses, parishes and other groups around country...
IMAGE: CNS Photo/courtesy Tanya Granillo de Vasquez By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Before Juan Vasquez says goodbye to wife Tanya Granillo de Vasquez and 1-year-old son Robert as he goes off to...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Yves Herman, Reuters By Jonathan Luxmoore OXFORD, England (CNS) -- The Commission of Bishops' Conferences of the European Union has urged member-states to stop "capitulating to...
On Palm Sunday Pope Francis began his livestreamed Holy Week liturgies telling the suffering that Jesus endured a painful death to ensure that are not alone, and that the current COVID-19 coronavirus...
Italians sitting down for dinner and turning on the evening news were greeted by Pope Francis. RAI state TV broadcast a recorded message from the pope, who said: “Let pray to the Lord for all those...
While Pope Francis’s Way of the Cross service on Good Friday has been transferred to the Vatican because of the coronavirus pandemic, the meditations focus, as always, on those who share the pain...
On the Friday before Holy Week, Pope Francis asked people to keep a long tradition of Catholic piety by focusing on "the suffering and sorrows of Our Lady."