If you were to ask Catholics of a certain generation to explain why a particular act (take adultery as just one representative example) should be classified as a sin, you would likely hear that it was ...

BALTIMORE — About two weeks ago, during his last days as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Providence Bishop-Designate Bruce Lewandowski welcomed Rhode Island Catholic to shadow him ...

LONDON — Sister Ellen McCarthy (Sisters Faithful Companions of Jesus) passed away unexpectedly on April 28, 2025, in London, England. She had ministered there in the FCJ school and retreat center for ...

It was providential that the installation Mass for our new bishop, the Most Reverend Bruce A. Lewandowski will take place on Tuesday, since the following week the Church will celebrate the feast of ...

With its mailed delivery to more than 41,000 readers, Rhode Island Catholic has by far the highest circulation of all paid-subscription weeklies in Rhode Island and the second-highest circulation ...

On the morning of March 30, during Mass celebrated by Bishop Mark O’Connell at St. John’s Seminary, Brighton, Massachusetts, seminarians Nick Jones and David Bardales were installed as Lectors, ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, the Chicago-born prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops under Pope Francis, was elected the 267th pope May 8 and took the name Pope Leo XIV. He is the ...

VATICAN CITY —Three days after stepping out as the newly elected successor to Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV again emerged from behind the red curtains to thunderous applause onto the central loggia of St ...

BRISTOL — Blessed Carlo Acutis, as beloved as he is, isn’t a saint quite yet. But in the eyes of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Bristol, he most certainly is. On the afternoon of Divine Mercy ...

Following the April 21 death of Pope Francis, a great curiosity hovered across the world as the College of Cardinals entered into mourning and prepared to elect a new pope. On May 8, the curiosity was ...

For someone for whom the idea of a celebrity culture putting people on an undeserved pedestal was distasteful, it’s a bit ironic that he’s been put on a pedestal himself. In the case of soon-to-be-St.

Ranking officers of the Vatican police and the Pontifical Swiss Guard place a beaded rope and seal on a Vatican office in the Apostolic Palace May 6, 2025. Buildings along the path cardinals may take ...