Underlining the importance of relics in Catholic devotions ... Blesseds and of the Saints, destined for the resurrection, has been on earth the living temple of the Holy Spirit and the instrument ...

In his first encyclical letter Lumen Fidei, Pope Francis said faith in Jesus Christ helps one to joyfully live life 'on wings ...

Instead, I was flying to Italy in April 2013 on a Judge Memorial Catholic ... “Holy Father.” For reasons explained in my 2021 book, “Monastery Mornings: My Unusual Boyhood Among the Saints ...

Twenty Catholic and evangelical Protestant scholars ... and thus the body of Christ is united when, empowered by the Holy Spirit, believers offer the same perfect adoration and worship.” ...

A rare exhibit of the Holy Tunic ... the Basilica of Saint-Denis in Argenteuil, a suburb of Paris. Open to the public from April 18 to May 11, the exhibit is galvanizing Catholic faithful ...

Holy Saturday falls between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, marking the solemn time when Jesus was in the tomb after his crucifixion. It is a day of quiet reflection, when Christians pause to ...

(AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) “We’ll see what the Holy Spirit says,” he said Wednesday. Asked if the next pope could come ...

When they first saw him at the parish, he was washing the car in the courtyard, and no one thought he was the new cardinal.

People pray during a Memorial Mass for Pope Francis at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., on April ...

Pope Francis, 88, died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, and Massachusetts residents met this death with mixed emotions.

Today we celebrate the feast of Saint Catherine of Siena, born in 1347. She was the 25th child in her family, born to a mother who was 40 years old at the time-an extraordinary beginning to an ...

Callista and I attended the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., three times this past Holy Week. The Basilica is the largest Catholic Church in ...