2+ hour, 28+ min ago  (216+ words) The Center for Mission, which supports the archdiocese's missionary outreach, is helping to organize the monthly prayer pilgrimage at churches "where there is a larger presence of parishioners representative of one of the five regions of the World Mission rosary,…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago  (980+ words) Pope Francis" issued his post-synodal apostolic exhortation on the pastoral care of families. It was published after the 2014 and 2015 Synods on the Family. The Oct. 7-14 gathering is intended "to proceed, in mutual listening, to a synodal discernment on the steps…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (660+ words) The Catholic Spirit. com Why I am Catholic " Jessica Jantzen I grew up in the Bible Belt " the southern region of the United States where Evangelical Protestantism reigns supreme and exerts a profound dominance socially and culturally. I was raised…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1072+ words) Wednesday, July 1, 2026 It's rarer, however, to immediately think of the priests who were also among them as the United States expanded ever westward. But they are there, embedded in American history " and their memory isn't simply consigned to dusty archives;…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1811+ words) Yet longevity is just the beginning of the story. Msgr. Welzbacher was an academic prodigy in his youth " a voracious reader at age 3 and a high school student at 12. He was ordained at the unusually young age of 22 under a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (448+ words) The Knights of Columbus announced June 23 that major relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque will travel to Washington and Baltimore from June 29 through July 5. The relics " which include the saint's clavicles, two of her ribs and a small piece of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1072+ words) We are here as shepherds of the Church," said Bishop James A. Misko of the Diocese of Tucson, Arizona, prior to celebrating Mass inside Nogales, Arizona's historic Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, less than a half mile from the international border....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (678+ words) Let us pray to Saints Peter and Paul that they may sustain us on our journey of communion in the footsteps of the Savior," the pope said in his homily in St. Peter's Basilica June 29. Sts. Peter and Paul, who…...

2+ week, 4+ hour ago  (899+ words) In his opening speech for the two-day meeting June 26-27, the pope told the cardinals gathered in the Vatican's Paul VI Hall, his ministry "cannot be carried out alone" and called on the College of Cardinals to support him by offering…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago  (803+ words) In a statement that included a 28-page "Profession of Faith" published June 24, the traditionalist society, commonly known as SSPX, said the Catholic Church is facing pressures from within and without that "which push her in every possible direction, except " it…...