One of the recent shining stars of social media is Dominican Sister Mary Jo Sobieck. Sister received national media attention in 2018 when she threw out the "perfect" first pitch at a White Sox game.
Sister Sobieck's positive energy is...
“On the wounded faces of the poor, we see the suffering of the innocent and, therefore, the suffering of Christ himself.” — Pope Leo XIV
The Holy Father reminds us today, especially those of us without financial worries, that to...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. bishops and a Catholic immigration advocacy group were among those who offered their support to a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
Oral argument in the case, Trump v. Barbara, is scheduled...
WASHINGTON -- A Catholic legal network and other opponents of the Trump administration's suspension of immigration from 75 countries are calling into question a key claim the government made in support of that policy.
When it announced the policy in...
ROME -- Norwegian Bishop Erik Varden preached a series of meditations for the first Lenten retreat of Pope Leo XIV and the Roman Curia, reflecting on the splendor of truth and the Christian idea of freedom, as well as...
CHICAGO -- A statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint, will be put in a public park on Chicago's Near West Side. It will replace a Christopher Columbus statue that was removed during the pandemic.
The Chicago...
Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana, welcomed news that a pro-abortion professor at the University of Notre Dame has withdrawn from an appointment to direct one of the university institutes, following weeks of outcry from students,...
By Josephine Peterson, Catholic News Service
ROME -- Eight hundred years after his death, the bones of St. Francis of Assisi have been placed on public display for the first extended public viewing in history, drawing hundreds of thousands of...
Fourth in a seven-part series
By Father James Dominic Brent, OP, OSV News
The Gospel of Matthew tells us: "(About) three o'clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?' which means, 'My God, my God, why have...
Q: In a recent homily, my parish priest suggested that we all "give up prayers of petition for Lent." He said we're not being good friends to God if all we do is ask him for things, and that...