Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

Rev. Paul Nicholson, S.J., begins his homily for the Ascension with a striking image from Medieval art: Jesus’ feet dangling ...

In this moment of deepening catastrophe, Hispanic America needs its first “Peruvian” pope to act not just as a global ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

John G. Vlazny, who served as archbishop of the Archdiocese of Portland between 1997 and 2013, died Friday at his Beaverton ...

Diocese of Laredo's Bishop Tamayo congratulates Pope Leo XIV, highlighting shared roots in the Order of Saint Augustine and ...

Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract crucifix crafted by the 20th-century artist Lello Scorzelli.

A striking corrective to the traditional Catholic view that the Pope is the rock on which the church is built is contained in Leo XIV’s sermon at his Inauguration Mass, last week. The sermon appears ...