On Palm Sunday, a week before Easter, the Catholic Church ... by decorations of greenery and flowers to suggest a garden. People stay for a time, adoring the wondrous sacrament that Jesus ...

In today’s Gospel, Our Lord sets forth for us the power of love. If we tap into it and draw from its riches, we are able to ...

Sunday, May 4, is the Third Sunday of Easter. Mass readings ... Despite seeing the Lord risen on at least three occasions, he is still struggling to understand it all. So too for many of us ...

We live in a time of polarization in society and even in the church. Too many of us maintain a spirit of "I've thought about ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

Of course, this happened after the Holy Spirit had so enthralled and emboldened them that they felt impelled to preach about what God was doing through the risen Christ. Their newfound courage ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "Purgatory:" 1031. "The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment ...

Easter Sunday: 6:45 a.m. sunrise prayer service; 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. full-length worship services. Easter Sunday: 8:30 a.m. worship service (fpclincoln.org/sunday ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the ...

For the first time, an American will lead the Catholic Church. On Thursday, the Vatican revealed that Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected by the papal conclave. He soon after addressed a ...

Joe Biden, who was the second Catholic U.S. president, told CNN he expects Pope Leo XIV, a friend of Pope Francis, to “keep moving the church in ... Francis gave on Easter Sunday, the day ...