The Church honors Jeanne d’Arc as a virgin martyr and national patroness, whose courage, purity and fortitude continue to ...

From the Pilgrims' Madonna at the Basilica of St. Augustine to the Martyrdom of St. Ursula that closes the "Caravaggio 2025" ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered his first homily as Bishop of Rome at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, where he took possession of ...

Metropolitan Arseniy of Sliven has openly condemned the Nestinarian ritual, urging Bulgarian priests and believers not to ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV marks a turning point for American Catholicism and global Christianity, reshaping political, ...

Leo officially opened his pontificate by taking his first popemobile tour through the piazza, a rite of passage that has ...

Here are key symbols and steps of the Mass ... the bond between the pope and the Diocese of Rome. The National Catholic Reporter's Rome Bureau is made possible in part by the generosity of ...

Francis challenged the ethnonationalism of the U.S. Catholic right. With the election of Leo XIV, the battle lines are being retraced.

Jennifer Bauer has heartbreaking reasons for distancing herself from the church. Her mother had been acutely unhappy in her second marriage. When she lamented to the women at her nondenominational ...

This is based on the traditional symbol of the Augustinian order. The fleur-de-lis has particular significance in Catholic iconography as a symbol of purity and the Virgin Mary. The three-petaled ...

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