A plenary indulgence is a grace granted by the Catholic Church through the merits of Jesus Christ to remove the temporal punishment due to sin. The indulgence applies to sins already forgiven. A ...

This we do in remembrance of the one who calls us to break bread together, to pour out the cup and in these simple, everyday acts of eating and drinking, to be in communion with each other, with Jesus ...

The Civil War ended on April 9, 1865. It was the deadliest war in American history. The blood of over 600,000 American soldiers stained the soil of nearly every state of the divided union. The South ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich of the Archdiocese of Chicago, in a letter published this week in the archdiocesan newspaper, urged Catholics to stand while receiving Holy Communion and not make gestures that ...