On Nov. 3, the Holy Father offered Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for all the cardinals and bishops who have died throughout the year. Pope Francis celebrates Mass for deceased cardinals and bishops in ...

During this blessed time of the year when Christians all over the world commemorate the life, death and resurrection of our conquering Canaan King Jesus Christ, I want to travel back 2000 years and ...

Reading the Scriptures, we find a number of terms for identifying people we commonly refer to as “Christians.” Among them are “children of God” (1 John 3:1), “sheep of His pasture” (Psalm 100:3), ...

In the short term, it is easy to fake being a follower of Christ. Discipleship requires action and conversion, the engagement of both hands and heart. Christ’s disciples do not earn God’s love by ...

The Vatican’s Synod on Synodality is seeking to discern the Church’s path in fostering a culture of dialogue and participation among its global community. The process will unfold over a two-year ...

On Sunday, the Church presented three more men and women as major models of Christian holiness as Charles de Foucauld, Maria Pia Mastena and Maria Crocifissa Curcio were all pronounced Blessed in St.

When you hear the word slave or servant, what image comes to mind? Do you see one of the 100 million conquered humans who were seized and sold across the Mediterranean during the millennium of Rome’s ...

LETTER | Christmas is around the corner and Christians around the world await to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. When one reflects on the historical dimension of the birth of Christ about 2,000 ...

Thecla's story is one of many in the Apocryphal Acts which portray women giving up riches and sexual activity to follow the Apostles. She is an aristocratic woman who, despite great opposition, upon ...

After receiving a letter of excommunication from the Vatican, the leader of a schismatic group in Colorado Springs told congregants he would ignore it — furthering the divide between the small ...