ROME — Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates and ...

Pope Francis is bringing his Holy Year to Rome’s main prison. Francis traveled to Rebibbia prison on a frigid morning.

Faith and community leaders across southern Wisconsin have joined hands and hearts with crowds of people heavy with grief, fear and uncertainty.

VATICAN— Pope Francis has officially declared the 16 Discalced Carmelite nuns of Compiègne, executed during the Reign of ...

The U.S. Catholic Church has a painful history of racism. One step toward healing could be canonization of the six African ...

In an interview with NCR, Debra Tice discussed how her faith has been the greatest source of strength and hope during her ...

Friday prayers carry significant symbolism in Syria as they were a rallying point during the early days of the 2011 uprising-turned-civil war, when protesters flooded the streets after leaving ...

The Mass is being ... change in the prayers of the Mass will indeed present a significant challenge for priests and parishioners alike. We’ll need more recourse to liturgical books and printed ...

By my count, there were churches from the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan, as well as a group representing three different Catholic churches ... the parish at the 6 p.m. Mass the previous evening.

And mass prayer that blocks streets for the Palestinian cause (or any other) has nothing to do with five students praying out of sight in a classroom at lunchtime. Generally speaking, with some ...

In the spirit of happy browsing, here are some suggestions for Christmas book-giving (not ... in an authentically Catholic key. A Short History of the Roman Mass by Uwe Michael Lang (Ignatius ...

Nearly 170 bishops from France and around the world took part, as well as one priest from each of the parishes in the Paris diocese and one priest from each of the seven Eastern-rite Catholic ...