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Pope Leo XIV, who is on summer holiday at the papal estate in Castel Gandolfo, encouraged people in his Sunday homily to ...

Hundreds of prayer warriors watched their social media accounts this past April for updates on a baby named Francis Roy Lilly ...

Keynote speaker Dr Joanna Frew criticised the UK government’s current notion of national security as being “too state-centric”, justifying more military ...

Brian Kissinger, executive director of Steubenville Conferences, said many who staffed and led sessions at last year’s National Eucharistic Congress, such as known Catholic personalities Father Josh ...

Some 40 participants took part in the “2025 Wind of Peace: DMZ World Youth Peace Pilgrimage,” held from July 10-13, Seoul ...

Guirgis’s play is straightforwardly theological-–grace, mercy, redemption, forgiveness. It is a winning candidate for ...

In a letter this week, Pope Leo XIV encouraged the prior provincials of the Dominicans to “listen to the Holy Spirit, who ...

Pope Francis declared 2025 as a Jubilee Year with the motto “Pilgrims of Hope.” In his letter promoting this Jubilee year of ...

Israel struck the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three in the religious site that Pope Francis ...

Mass was organized by the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago’s LGBTQ+ outreach ministry, AGLO Chicago, with special prayers ...

Bishop John Nhan Tran, who answered God’s call through Pope Francis to be an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Atlanta ...