Scripture readings for Aug. 9, Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a Ps 85:9, 10, 11-12, 13-14 Rom 9:1-5 Matthew 14:22-33
Walking on the sea, we see Jesus "in the form of God." That's what St. Augustine would say...
VATICAN CITY -- The American singer-songwriter Patti Smith met with Pope Leo XIV July 31 in a private audience at the Vatican's Apostolic Palace.
Video shared of the meeting shows Smith grinning and giddy as she shakes the hand of...
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sent a letter to the Catholic bishops of Florida demanding that Catholic schools in the Sunshine State adopt religious exemptions to vaccine requirements or risk their ability to participate in the state's school voucher...
The Catholic Business Network of the Diocese of Wilmington kicks off another full season of morning gatherings with topical discussions aimed at enriching people of good will in the business community.
The network founded in 2025 kicks this season off...
ROME -- At the age of 97, Cardinal Ernest Simoni, returned to the former prison camp in Albania where he used to offer Mass in secret during his 18 years of sentenced forced labor, offering a public Mass July...
Police in northern Nigeria are investigating the murder of a priest who was killed in an apparent roadside ambush.
The Diocese of Lokoja announced the death of Father Samuel Opeyemi Oyetoro in a statement posted to Facebook July 30 and...
A federal judge July 30 temporarily shielded four orders of women religious and Catholic healthcare ministries from enforcement of a New York state law allowing physicians to aid terminally ill adults in dying by suicide.
The Catholic entities -- the...
Q: The nondenominational church near my house offers praise and worship nights with music. I've been interested in attending, not because I want to convert, but because I like that style of music and any opportunity to join in...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Catholic bishops are getting ready a nationwide call to prayer and action, with an official launch date of Aug. 18, to mobilize Catholics to address the rising abortion rate and the increased availability of an...
By Julie Davis, OSV News
Despite how much they are quoted — especially among Catholics — most people have a superficial sense of these six oft-cited writers and their works.
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are well known for tales of...