We keep things in discreet categories in our culture. Religion too often remains within the church's walls, kept apart from the forces that drive society. That's a large reason why we have secular ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, preaches at Mass in the Basilica of the Annunciation at the inauguration of the Jubilee Year in the Holy Land on De ...

A: The short answer is, a Jubilee Year is a special year of grace and reconciliation. Today, the Catholic Church celebrates a Jubi ...

A passenger plane arriving from Bangkok exploded after skidding off the runway at a South Korean airport in Muan Dec. 29, crashing into a concrete fence and claiming th ...

The Holy Family, though made up of saints and God incarnate, faced real challenges and offers a model for navigating the ...

Offering his condolences, Pope Francis praised former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's Christian faith and his lifelong mission to advance peace. The pope ...

In a dark sign of descending security in Africa's most populous country, a Catholic priest has been shot dead on the open road in southeast Nigeria on Boxing Day. Accord ...

Each Christmas, the people in our parishes have an opportunity to make a gift that supports those who are building up the ...

The rite of opening the Holy Doors of the main basilicas of Rome to inaugurate the 2025 Jubilee Year is perhaps one of the ...

God wants to save each and every person, and Christians are called to give witness to that fact by praying even for people who have harmed them, Pope Francis said. Marking the f ...

In the quiet of Christmas Eve, Pope Francis opened the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica, launching what he called a ...

Wearing red vestments for the feast of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr, Pope Francis knocked on the door of the church in Rome's Rebibbia prison complex and walked over its thres ...