In the early 13th century, the church faithful were abstaining from receiving holy Communion. It wasn't that they were not ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Pentecost Mass with participants in the Year of Hope's Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations, ...

In this context, the Pope marveled that the Holy Spirit "overcomes their fear, shatters their inner chains, heals their ...

Pope Leo XIV criticized the "exclusionary mindset" in "political nationalisms." He asked God to "open borders, break down ...

Francis, homily at second vespers of the solemnity of the conversion of Saint Paul ... the insistent appeals of St. Benedict, in his Rule, to fraternal charity in the monastery and hospitality towards ...

The death of a pope and election of another is a matter of utmost solemnity for Catholics ... by his more doctrinaire predecessors St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI. A new pope who is more ...

From the Cardinals assembled in conclave after Benedict XVI’s resignation ... On 19 March, the Solemnity of Saint Joseph, he officially began his Petrine ministry. Always attentive to the ...

With high solemnity he intoned ... The Poverello of Assisi is a very different figure from St. Benedict of Nursia – the founder of Western monasticism, the very bulwark against the ravages ...

Even as we observe the solemnity of St. Joseph on March 19 ... As we read in the part on labor in the Rule of St. Benedict, "Idleness is the enemy of the soul." St. Aquinas quotes Jerome similarly ...

The pope made the surprise announcement at the end of his weekly Sunday Angelus prayer from a window in the Apostolic Palace overlooking St ... Vatican on Dec. 8, the Solemnity of the Immaculate ...