VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The celebration of World Mission Sunday is a popular day for a pope to canonize new saints -- not only those who ministered or gave up their lives in lands traditionally known as ...

Pope Francis called again for “an immediate cease-fire on all fronts” in the Middle East, urging leaders to “pursue the paths ...

Ethel Kennedy – widow of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, human rights activist and mother of 11 – died Oct. 10, her family ...

Msgr. Raymond East, pastor of St. Teresa of Avila Parish in Washington, D.C. and a nationally known evangelist and preacher, ...

During an Oct. 9, 2024 Mass at Mount Calvary Church in Forestville, Maryland, Father Ajani Gibson – the pastor of St. Peter ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis announced he would create 21 new cardinals Dec. 8, including a 99-year-old former nuncio ...

The Saint John Paul II National Shrine will host a week of celebrations Oct. 16 through Oct. 20 to honor its patron saint’s ...

Catholics must think about migrants and refugees with the mind of Christ, and not the way that we are trained to think about ...

Members of the Synod of Bishops have begun looking for ways to make relationships within the Catholic Church “more ...

Just as the nation’s founders relied on God’s providence, so too must all those serving in the U.S. legal profession and government today depend on the gifts of the Holy Spirit which are essential to ...

If approved by voters, the measure, known as Question 1, would make it virtually impossible for Maryland lawmakers to enact any laws that would “directly or indirectly, deny, burden, or abridge the ...