The church has had centuries of experience with the do's and don'ts during a pandemic -- and far from being antagonistic, it has often been at the forefront of endorsing public health measures...
Twenty-five years ago, St. John Paul II's encyclical on ecumenism, "Ut Unum Sint," put the papal seal of approval on a shift in the Catholic Church's approach to the search for Christian...
After nearly three months of closure due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, the Vatican Museums and the Pontifical Villa of Castel Gandolfo, the longtime papal summer residence, will reopen to the...
Sports can offer a unique witness of unity that can build a "bridge of peace" between men and women of different religions and cultures and promote solidarity, Pope Francis said.
IMAGE: CNS composite; photo courtesy the Canavan and Murawski families via The Catholic Spirit By Joanne Ward METUCHEN, N.J. (CNS) -- May is the month many eagerly await because it is the time many...
IMAGE: CNS photo/David Wallace, The Republic, USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Few places in the U.S. have been more vulnerable to the wrath of the coronavirus than...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Deacon Skip Olson, courtesy Diocese of Lexington By Peter Finney Jr. NEW ORLEANS (CNS) -- During two months of social isolation, the work of American business has migrated, ready or...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters By David Agren MEXICO CITY (CNS) -- The recent decision by the Department of Homeland Security to extend restrictions on nonessential crossings of the southern...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A missionary or church reality that is truly inspired by the Holy Spirit "manifests predilection for the poor and...
By Joseph Pronechen | Memorial Day remember so many killed in the nation’s wars. On this 100th anniversary of the entry of the United States into World War I on April 6, 1917, we can remember...
By Matthew Archbold | On June 20, 2009, Lt. Col. Father Timothy Vakoc passed away. Five years before on Mary 29, 2004, Father Vakoc was terribly injured when he was ordered to return to Mosul as some...
By Fr. Dwight Longenecker | There are very few Catholic titles for the Blessed Virgin Mary more likely to annoy Evangelical Protestants than Coredemptrix or Mediatrix. Immediately the Bible Christian...
By Anna Abbott | On March 13, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., announced that their Dead Sea Scroll fragments, one of their most prominent exhibits, were forgeries. On March 27, Steve...
By Father Roger J. Landry | The centenary of the birth of Pope St. John Paul II on May 18 is not the only anniversary of note connected with him this month. On May 25, the Church marks the 25th...