IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The COVID-19 quarantines, lockdowns and stay-at-home orders are the perfect opportunity for conversion: for individuals, for the...
By PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- Expressing "deep concern for the spiritual and physical well-being" of the faithful, the bishops of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in America have urged clergy...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Diocese of Portland By Julie Asher WASHINGTON (CNS) -- In Maine, known as the "Pine Tree State," the solution to a prohibition on passing out palm branches at...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Handout via Reuters By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to grow in the U.S. faster than anywhere else in the world, the Catholic bishop of El Paso...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Kathleen Flynn, Reuters By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The call to solidarity in Catholic social teaching is "an X-ray in our society that exposes the inequalities in our...
By Hannah Brockhaus/CNA. | VATICAN CITY — During the coronavirus pandemic, saving the elderly must be just as important as saving others, the Vatican’s Laity, Family, and Life dicastery has...
By Christine Rousselle/CNA | WASHINGTON, D.C. — It is a pious Catholic tradition to visit seven altars of repose following Mass on Holy Thursday. With churches closed and strict social...
By Tito Edwards | Lord of the Rings Actor is St. Patrick in New Film: Christian Civilization Must Be Defended – ChurchPOP +1 Private Chapels Brought to Light by Social Distancing – Shawn R...
By John Grondelski | Dominican Father Dominic Langevin penned a thoughtful piece over at First Things, explaining It’s quite timely, America’s bishops having decided to lock down the country’s...
By Angelo Stagnaro | Those who laud scientific advancement as the sine qua non of human civilization should take note of how easily the most industrial and scientifically advanced nations in the...
Pope Francis said he sees the disruptions caused by the pandemic as an opportunity to reflect on the economy and the way the poor are often ignored or treated “like rescued animals.”
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the papal almoner, has asked Vatican cardinals, archbishops and other top officials to make a monetary Easter offering to assist people suffering during the coronavirus...
Local churches and individuals must do more to help and to protect the elderly from loneliness and infection during the coronavirus pandemic, a Vatican office said.
On the day that Cardinal George Pell was acquitted by Australia’s High Court on charges of sexual abuse, Pope Francis opened his daily Mass by praying for “all persons who suffer an unjust sentence...
In an April 7 statement just hours after the court’s verdict, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said, “The Holy See, which has always expressed confidence in the Australian judicial authority, welcomes...