It was a close call, but Francis’ emergence from Gemelli Hospital ensures that implementation of the synod on synodality's ...

Signs of the times. Trump’s second term could reshape not only U.S. institutions but the Catholic Church itself—at home and ...

The French Bishops' Conference is holding a special session March 31–April 1 to assess anti-abuse efforts. Although many ...

(RNS) — Just when it looked like the anti-Francis forces would have their chance to “fix” the Catholic Church ... non-bishops see what is behind the curtain such a bad thing?

Wednesday, 2 April, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of Saint Pope John Paul II's departure to the House of the Father at the age of 84, after carrying the cross of a terrible Parkinson disease ...

Born in Yazoo City, Mississippi, to college-educated Protestant parents and raised in nearby Canton, Bowman converted to ...

The following Sunday, in a display of Catholic church power in the fledgling State ... They had carpets, velvet curtains, paintings on the walls, gramophones and the finest wines.

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), called on the Church to renew its condemnation of the Russian ...

St. John Paul II greets the crowd in Czestochowa during his 1979 trip to Poland. April 2, 2025, marks the 20th anniversary of ...

In her depictions of reflective surfaces, shimmering hair, and the type of heavy velvet curtains found in old ... one of the penitential psalms, used in Catholic, Jewish and Lutheran liturgies.

“I was born and raised in Nottinghamshire to an Irish Catholic family and we’d go to our Catholic school and sing church songs and on Sunday ... and you only find out once you go beyond the curtain,” ...