St. John the Evangelist eighth-grader John Paul Sloan holds a book of prayers as Cardinal Robert W. McElroy blesses the St. John the Evangelist School building in Silver Spring Fe ...

OSV News: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) was formally “liquidated” by the Soviet regime in 1946, and only emerged from the underground – where it continued in secret – in 1989. Since that ...

The Holy See “will not participate” in President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Gaza, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state, said Feb. 17, citing “points that leave us ...

While Catholics in the United States typically receive a visible cross of ashes traced on their foreheads, that is not the universal practice across the Catholic Church. In many parts of the world – ...

As the U.S. prepares to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has encouraged Catholics to participate ...

Scripture Reflection for the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, apostle (First Sunday of Lent): Lent calls for a return to ...

In 1597, the Spanish Franciscans Pedro de Corpa, Blas Rodríguez de Cuacos, Miguel de Añón, Antonio de Badajoz and Francisco ...

Catholic leaders were among those who praised the legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a Baptist minister and prominent civil ...

On Ash Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV encouraged Catholics to ask the Lord for “the gift of true conversion” at the start of the ...

However, sometimes we all need a bit of inspiration to get started. Here are 20 Lenten resolutions that yielded good fruit.

Lent isn’t supposed to be effortless. And it’s supposed to have a positive effect. Obscuring these realities can be easy today. When taking on the penances of Lent, Pope Leo directs us to keep our ...

“Ash Wednesday is a way of looking ahead to Easter,” Father Morrill said. “And here in the Northern Hemisphere, that also ...