If the church's new year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, then why is New Year's Day a holy day of obligation?

Christian leaders have urged the Hindu nationalists' government in India to speak out forcefully against Christian ...

Close to 3 million pilgrims and visitors attended audiences, liturgies or meetings at the Vatican with Pope Leo XIV from the ...

Seventeen Catholic priests, sisters, seminarians and lay workers were murdered in 2025, according to Fides, the Vatican's ...

The Archdiocese of Prague has welcomed pre-Christmas plans to build a major new parish church using 3D printing technology, ...

The rite of Christian relationships helps families live the priestly mission of baptism. When we work to overcome the selfish ...

Masses held at cathedrals on the feast of the Holy Family Dec. 28 marked the closing of diocesan celebrations of the Jubilee ...

Leo's papacy, of nine months gestation, has revealed itself slowly -- full of hope but also hidden, as though the first pope ...

The power of prayer and its far-reaching evangelization apostolate were the dominant themes of a silver anniversary bash ...

"The Magnificat," one of Santer's early commissions, greets visitors to Catholic United Financial's St. Cloud branch office ...

As 2025 draws to a close, the plight of persecuted Christians around the world remains dire -- and in many places, deeply ...

Christian families must not let today's tyrants suffocate their love and witness to Gospel values, Pope Leo XIV said. "In our ...