3+ hour, 23+ min ago   (361+ words) A mid-20th-century media star in a clerical collar just moved closer to the Catholic Church's highest honor. The late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the Illinois-born televangelist... American's Beatification Stalled in 2019. It's Back On A mid-20th-century media star in a clerical collar…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (254+ words) Leo presided over a New Year's Eve vespers service in St. Peter's Basilica, giving thanks for the 2025 Holy Year that brought millions of pilgrims to Rome in the once-every-quarter-century celebration of Christianity. Leo will officially close out the Jubilee on…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (399+ words) Pope Leo XIV closed out 2025 on Wednesday with a prayer that the city of Rome might be a welcoming place for foreigners and fragile people, young and old. Leo presided over a New Year's Eve vespers service in St. Peter's…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (490+ words) Millennial and Generation Z Christian influencers are increasingly filling a void in American religion, growing audiences across digital platforms by steering young people to biblical answers to tough questions that aren't always answered in Sunday sermons. "I can be that…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (403+ words) Pope Leo used his first Christmas Eve sermon to deliver a blunt message: shutting the door on the poor is, in his view, shutting the door on God. Preaching at a packed Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, the first US-born…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (494+ words) Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important US appointment yet, naming a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest archdioceses as it navigates relations with the Trump administration and its…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (182+ words) The spruce tree hailed from Italy's German-speaking majority autonomous province on the Austrian border, while the life-size Nativity scene was designed by the Nocera Inferiore-Sarno diocese in the southern Campania province, featuring architectural elements from the region. The deputy governor…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (314+ words) The Vatican unveiled its Nativity scene Monday and lit the 82-foot Christmas tree that towers above it in St. Peter's Square as a band, chorus, and dancers in traditional costumes from Italy's northernmost South Tyrol province performed. The spruce tree…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (762+ words) Pope Leo XIV has taken his biggest step yet to correct one of Pope Francis' more problematic financial moves, canceling a special Holy See fundraising commission that was announced under questionable circumstances while Francis was hospitalized. Leo on Thursday formally…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (870+ words) A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to preside at weddings, baptisms, and funerals. The Vatican on Thursday took…...