IMAGE: CNS photo/Rhina Guidos By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The ask for baby items heading to the Holy Land couldn't be more appropriate: "swaddling clothes needed." The Gospel of...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Christmas season is a time to reflect on what life is all about, Pope Francis told an international group of performers...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' 2019-20 Christmas season celebrations will include the usual liturgies and traditions. Releasing the pope's schedule Dec. 12, the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pope Francis said she reminds Catholics of her true essence as a woman, a mother and...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Los Angeles By LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Mary, the Mother of God is "the mother of all of us," Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in his homily...
As part of the celebrations for his 50th anniversary of priesthood, Pope Francis chose to personally present a multi-volume collection of writings by his longtime spiritual director, the late Jesuit...
On the rare occasions Spanish Father Jordi Bertomeu speaks, his words have weight. The CDF official recently penned a long essay on the clerical abuse crisis, pointing to many myths perpetrated by...
Pope Francis was to mark his 50th anniversary as a priest Friday by paying homage to his spiritual father, a fellow Argentine Jesuit whose teachings on popular piety and discernment have had an...
By Mary Farrow/CNA | WASHINGTON, D.C. — In its 2019 roundup of the biggest lies of the year (dubbed the biggest ‘Pinocchios’), the Washington Post included a false but oft-repeated claim...
By Catholic News Agency | METUCHEN, N.J. — A New Jersey bishop is calling on legislators to amend a bill that would force religious groups to fund contraceptive coverage for their...
By Trent Beattie | It sometimes takes the worst of circumstances to bring out the best in people. When Mitch Morse, now 27, was only 4, his younger brother Robbie, only 4 months old at the time...
By Michael Warsaw | The first of our four polls commissioned to take the pulse of Catholics in advance of the 2020 presidential election was released on Dec. 9, and it was very revealing, in many...
By Donald DeMarco | IN THE BEGINNING A Catholic Scientist Explains How God Made Earth Our Home By Gerard Verschuuren Sophia Press, 2019 179 pages, $18.95 To order: sophiainstitute.com or (800)...