Before anything else, especially amid all the sorrows, fears, loss and disorientation of a brutal year across the globe, Buon Natale a tutti – to one and all, a Blessed Christmas... may all its light,
Fifteen years (less a day) since Benedict XVI revolutionized the Roman Pontiff's Christmas "greeting" to the leaders of his Curia – transforming the holiday pleasantry into a Pope's...
Whether you’ve been waiting three decades or just three weeks for this, the “mountaintop” is at hand. From 4pm Rome (10am US ET), the livefeed of a Public Consistory like no other – from the...
As the US bishops face a moment unseen in most of their lifetimes – the nation's election of a Catholic to the Presidency – the issue of Joe Biden's faith emerged by surprise at today's public close...
Set to begin at 1pm Eastern, this final day of a virtual – and heavily curtailed – USCCB Plenary will be underpinned by what've arguably been the two key threads of American life in 2020: the bench's...
And now, for something completely different – a hundred forty years since the collegial governance of American Catholicism began with a November meeting of its archbishops, a full century since the...
And so, almost two years since the former cardinal-archbishop of Washington Theodore McCarrick became the highest-ranking cleric ever to be dismissed from orders amid serial credible reports of...
Miriam Doerr Martin Frommherz The executive order could impact high school sports, the privacy of single-sex bathrooms, faith-based organizations that are government grantees or contractors, and...
Lauren Cater Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, of San Francisco, in Rome on June 28. On Thursday, Archbishop Cordileone clarified that “Nancy Pelosi does not speak for the Catholic Church.”
Alex Wong U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event in the State Dining Room of the White House January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Observers say that in an age of diminished Catholic identity...
Alex Wong Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., speaks during a news conference on health care September 13, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The former U.S. Senator of Pennsylvania talks...
Heinrich Hofmann, “Christ and the Rich Young Ruler,” 1889 “Detachment from riches is necessary for entering the Kingdom of heaven. ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit.’” (CCC 2556)
The French doctor who discovered the genetic basis of Down syndrome but spent his career advocating against abortion as a result of prenatal diagnosis has taken his first major step to possible...
After recovering from COVID-19 himself, the pope's point man for charity is encouraging people to not forget the poor and homeless as vaccination programs ramp up around the world.
As the Vatican health service continued vaccinating Vatican residents and employees against COVID-19, it also began offering the vaccine to homeless people who live in Vatican-owned shelters.