Either way, the Council of Nicaea — whose 1,700th anniversary we celebrate this year — remains deeply relevant to the ...

Lisa Livezey writes from Pennsylvania where she found her way to Rome via the Anglican Ordinariate. She is the author of ...

Washington-area Catholic school students react to the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope.

marking the end of Lent and the beginning of the sacred "Triduum,” or three, of Holy Week. These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church. This Mass stresses the importance Jesus ...

Spain’s confraternities often make headlines in the foreign press as their Holy Week processions have become a tourist ...

The time from sundown on Holy Thursday to sundown on Easter Day is also known as the Triduum, which is Latin ... Jerusalem in the earliest days of the Church, when devout people traveled to ...

Feast of the Miraculous Holy Cross at Val-Agonda was celebrated with heartfelt faith and devotion, attracting parishioners from Agonda as well as dev ...

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 will of ...

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.

The Catholic Church has vowed to excommunicate any priest who follows a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report information about child abuse to law enforcement — even if given in ...

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s hot-button issues remain unclear, he has signaled continuity with his ...