Cardinal Robert Prevost didn’t write much. No sweeping interviews in Jesuit journals. No autobiographical catecheses. No manifestos. But in the quiet preface he penned for a textbook on social ...

1. HE LOVED US”, Saint Paul says of Christ (cf. Rom 8:37), in order to make us realize that nothing can ever “separate us” from that love (Rom 8:39). Paul could say this with certainty ...

The file is suspended. The Catholic Church will not beatify Luisa Piccarreta, an Italian mystic known for her spiritual exercises centered on union with the will of God On January 24, Bishop ...

Despite the First Council of Nicaea in 325, which condemned Arianism and affirmed Christ’s divinity, many continued to deny that Jesus was truly God. A few decades later, the divinity of the ...

The October 2024 assembly marked the most female-inclusive synod in Church history. Around 50 women took part—and voted—in the second session of the Synod on Synodality. The right to vote at ...

The Armenian people suffered horrific massacres in the 19th century under the Ottoman Empire — including the Hamidian massacres, which left 200,000 dead — followed by the Armenian Genocide of ...

“We’ve lost the baraka — God’s blessing — because of our sins, the crimes we’ve committed against each other,” lamented El Hadj Jibriil, his wrinkled forehead and squinting eyes ...

The vegetation is dense and lush. Tamarisks, willows, reeds, and Euphrates poplars line the muddy bed of the Jordan. A Catholic church has recently been built, neighboring an Orthodox church and ...

La Croix: You followed the election of Pope Leo XIV from Villanova University, near Philadelphia, where you teach—and where the pope had studied mathematics and philosophy in the 1970s.

When it gets down to brass tacks, the Catholic hierarchs who wear red hats serve only one purpose that no other member of the Church can fulfill -- they elect the Bishop of Rome. That is the only ...

The moment the pope died, at … on …, the Catholic Church entered sede vacante — the period of vacancy in the Apostolic See, marking a time without a reigning ...

Pope Francis will travel to Corsica on Sunday, December 15, an island where the Catholic faith is rooted in the local culture and identity. In this photo, a choir sings during a December 8 Mass on ...