A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that ...

Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic Churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels – although just under one ...

Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

Pope Francis offers guidance on evaluating and responding to disaster through his encyclicals Laudato Si' and Fratelli Tutti.

Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to ...

The way consecrated women and men live their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience can offer light and hope to a world ...

The Eucharist is not simply a cultural legacy. It is more than a moving performance or a beautiful ritual symbolizing ...

Meet the altruistic young guns hellbent on making the Rust Belt town a cultural epicenter and building community in the ...

Communion can be distributed “under the form of wine alone in a case of necessity,” but many parishes have opted for the ...

A lengthy note by two Vatican dicasteries aims to prevent the line between humans and machines from becoming “blurred.” ...

Asian American communities around the U.S. will ring in the Year of the Snake with community carnivals, family gatherings, ...

By Michael M. Canaris Astute churchgoers likely recently noted that the weekend of Jan. 18-19 marked the Second Sunday in ...