Q: If the church's new year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, then why is the secular New Year's Day (Jan. 1) a holy day ...

Thousands of youth and young adults across the nation were assured of God's love -- and encouraged to respond to his call in ...

Our liturgies carry us to Christ; our worship becomes an encounter. What we adore is revealed in sacrament, revealing our ...

With rain-slicked coats and rain-soaked feet, last-minute visitors did not let Rome's infamous winter deluges and damp stop ...

The day after Christmas dawned gray and bleak. The forecast was snow, sleet, ice. Opened presents begged to be sorted and put ...

On the feast of the Epiphany, the 2025 Jubilee Year came to a close as the Holy Doors in Rome were sealed once again. I am ...

The powerful and violent cannot control, suppress or commodify God's grace, friendship and will to usher in a new dawn, Pope ...

An estimated 33 million visitors and pilgrims came to the Vatican to celebrate the Jubilee Year, exceeding early forecasts, ...

As deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro made his first appearance Jan. 5 in a New York courtroom on narco-terrorism ...

After a jubilee year not seen for centuries -- with one pope opening the Holy Door and another closing it -- Pope Leo XIV ended the Jubilee Year of Hope at St. Peter's Basil ...

Following the liberation of all the children and staff abducted from St. Mary's School in the Nigerian town of Papiri, the ...

Pope Leo XIV expressed "deep concern" following the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores ...