1+ week, 1+ day ago   (537+ words) At a chapel near the site of the accident, some fans knelt in prayer, emotion welling in their eyes. Others sang and danced raucously to her greatest hits. During her life, Gilda was a nationally beloved singer of cumbia, a…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (1189+ words) The Catholic Church agreed, declaring the boy’s resuscitation a miracle after Engstrom and others sought the heavenly prayers of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who died in 1979. That determination made Sheen — a towering presence in 20th-century Catholicism, with pioneering broadcasts…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (732+ words) Speaking to tens of thousands in Rimini, Leo warned against a culture that “rearms minds, words and nations” and argued that Christians must respond with mercy, encounter and a commitment to peace. He also delivered a message of encouragement to…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (434+ words) The decline in wages and pensions, coupled with an increase in the cost of public transportation, utilities, rent and food, has forced millions of Argentines to go into debt to survive. “I hope the Pope comes to help the poor…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (709+ words) Walter Scheirer, University of Notre Dame (THE CONVERSATION) Pope Leo XIV recently found himself in a position many of today’s students can relate to: having his writing tested for signs of artificial intelligence use. Proudly Human, a tech company that…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (935+ words) For traditionalist Catholics who worship at churches affiliated with the breakaway Society of St. Pius X, Sunday Mass now comes with an extraordinary question. Yet inside the society's churches, normal life has largely carried on. Service in the old Latin…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1115+ words) “Our Catholic faith is a living tradition, and there is a difference between being rooted and being stuck,” the Rev. John Ubel said in homilies Sunday at English-language and Latin Masses. Since the Second Vatican Council modernized the liturgy more…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (734+ words) The Vatican’s doctrine office went above and beyond the minimum sanctions foreseen by the church’s canon law to respond to the consecrations Wednesday of four new bishops at the society’s Econe, Switzerland, seminary. The society, known by its acronym SSPX,…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (629+ words) Organ, brass and choral singing thundered inside a modern Orlando shrine during the service, a centerpiece of the spring assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “To consecrate ourselves to the Sacred Heart is ultimately to accept Jesus’ invitation to…...