COMMENTARY: The greatest pre-conclave homily was preached by St. John Paul II in 1978, on the Gospel where Christ asks Peter ...

Pope Leo XVI, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, held the first Mass of his papacy in the Sistine Chapel on Friday morning, ...

Archbishop of Seattle Paul Etienne discussed the future of the Catholic Church and how Washington clergy will navigate a new ...

Israel's mission -- to be God's instrument of salvation to the ends of the earth (see Isaiah 49:6) -- is fulfilled in the Church. By the ...

Today’s readings: Acts 5,27b-32.40b-41; Revelations 5,11-14; John 21,1-19 Since the demise of Pope John Paul II ... having forgotten their call to preach the Gospel to the nations, returned ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 Catholic cardinals are beginning the ...

They would not give up, even if it meant burning to death. Refusing to worship Nebuchadnezzar’s golden image, Shadrach, ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, ...

Hailing from 70 countries, the cardinals are being sequestered from the outside world, their cellphones surrendered and ...

When I saw that the topic was entitled "Shaping the next generation" my first thought was “Yikes!” I am 80 years old, with a space age gap between us — me participating in shaping the next generation.

Following this Paul speaks of his imprisonment for the preaching of the Gospel, “the gospel for which I am suffering and wearing fetters like a criminal” (v. 9). We hear how his suffering ...