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1+ hour, 53+ min ago   (536+ words) A Catholic advocacy group has written to the bishops of Massachusetts asking them to excommunicate Governor Maura Healey following her signing of legislation into effect to remove restrictions on late-term abortions, which would allow for abortion up to birth. The…...

39+ min ago   (985+ words) Pope Leo during his recent visit to the Canary Islands Image Vatican Media "The cry of displaced children rises to God today," Pope Leo says in his Message for the 112th World Day of Migrants and Refugees, which the Church will…...

25+ min ago   (327+ words) Handmaids of the Sacred Heart Mark 100 Years of Sharing ‘Joyful Love’ Archdiocesan High Schools, Teachers Union Ratify New Three-Year Contract Catholic Commitment to Affordable Senior Housing Growing Deeper By CatholicPhilly Staff Report • Posted August 14, 2026 St. Charles Borromeo Seminary has received…...

6+ hour, 15+ min ago   (595+ words) Benedictine College Media & Culture The mission to prepare educators as Builders of Community has a new exemplar. Benedictine College alumna Sister Mary Chiara will bring her vocation as a School Sister of Christ the King into the classroom this fall,…...

36+ min ago   (871+ words) The Synod convened on Thursday August 13, at the Patriarchate in Jerusalem under the presidency of His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of Jerusalem, with the members of the Holy Synod in attendance. The Synod examined the administrative, ecclesiastical and pastoral affairs…...

2+ hour, 56+ min ago   (201+ words) (OSV News) -- Pope Leo XIV encouraged sisters to foster vocations to religious life in the United States in a video message sent Aug. 12. Addressing participants in the Leadership Conference of Women Religious assembly taking place in Orlando, Florida, the pope…...

1+ hour, 18+ min ago   (600+ words) My concern regarding the Synod on Synodality must be read in that light. And above all, I wonder what all this means for the simple believer who expects not a permanent process from his Church, but clarity about the way…...

1+ hour, 54+ min ago   (528+ words) Belief in the Assumption dates to the apostles. The Church teaches that, at the end of her earthly life, Mary was assumed — taken up body and soul — into heaven. Pope Pius XII declared the dogma of the Assumption on Nov....

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (477+ words) Persist in beseeching the Lord. Sunday, Aug. 16, is the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Isaiah 56:1, 6-7; Psalm 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Romans 11:13-15, 29-32; Matthew 15:21-28. A woman in need comes before Christ. “A Canaanite woman of that district came and called out, ‘Have pity on me,…...

1+ hour, 48+ min ago   (528+ words) ANALYSIS: Two last-minute decisions to deny Catholic funeral rites highlight a broader campaign for rapprochement between senior Church figures and Italy’s Ma......