3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1735+ words) (ROME) CNS — If Bishop Robert Paul Boxie was selected to become a bishop just because he is Black, he said he is comfortable with that. “Some people may believe I’ve been selected, picked, because I’m Black,” he said in an…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (612+ words) The four-day visit, which starts on Sept. 25, will include popemobile rides, an open-air Mass in central Paris and a stop in Lourdes, one of Catholicism’s most important pilgrimage sites. The trip is “important for the country hosting him, but more…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (641+ words) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) — The Peruvian city of Callao announced an unusual tribute to Pope Leo XIV ahead of his November visit to the South American country: the largest statue of the pontiff in the world. The 45.9-foot-tall statue…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (983+ words) America Media interprets the church for the world and the world for the church. We are a forum for discussion of religion, society, politics and culture from a Catholic perspective. The Ignatian traditions of “finding God in all things” and…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (402+ words) A Reflection for Memorial of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God,he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret.He saw…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (255+ words) (OSV News) — An apostolic letter in the form of a motu proprio by Pope Leo XIV, “Mutua concordia,” published Aug. 29, amends Canons 106 and 126 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches and grants the Synod of Bishops the power,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (432+ words) As we sat in a pew at the Shrine of Blessed Stanley Rother in Oklahoma City, Okla., I whispered, “Dad, that’s his body in there.” My father and I had found ourselves in the back chapel of the shrine, getting…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1469+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Catholic vision and culture of love and mercy must overcome the false narratives that create enemies and convince people and nations to “re-arm” in a “culture of power,” Pope Leo XIV said. “Let us, then, together…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (243+ words) America Media interprets the church for the world and the world for the church. We are a forum for discussion of religion, society, politics and culture from a Catholic perspective. The Ignatian traditions of “finding God in all things” and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (263+ words) (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV has appointed three U.S.-based consultors, all with ties to the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, to the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. They are among a dozen newly named consultors to the…...