Recent research has identified what attracts people to Catholic parishes, and parishes are using creative means to evangelize ...

The celebration of Easter and Christmas, the two greatest solemnities, continues for eight days, with each octave governed by its own rules.

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

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 ...

O God, Creator of heaven and earth: Grant that, as the crucified body of your dear Son was laid in the tomb and rested on this holy Sabbath, so we may await with him the coming of the third day ...

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 ...

Revelation 22:19 All Christians - Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant - agree that the Books in the Bible are the inspired, written Word of God but disagree on which Books belong in the Bible.