By Anna Abbott | Last year marked the 50th anniversary of Pope St. Paul VI’s “Humanae Vitae (On Human Life).” This year marks the 50th anniversary of an equally important part of his legacy. In...
By Patty Knap | Recently a dozen of us had just gathered in front of the Hempstead, Long Island, Planned Parenthood and were starting the Rosary when a woman crossing the street called out to us. “I...
By Dave Armstrong | Nehemiah 8:10 (RSV, as throughout). . . do not be grieved, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” (cf. Ps 27:14; 30:5; 138:3; 145:14) Psalm 33:20 Our soul waits for...
IMAGE: CNS photo/David Agren By David Agren LA RIOJA, Argentina (CNS) -- Bishop Enrique Angelelli Carletti traveled to a rural corner of his diocese in July 1973 to celebrate the feast of San Antonio.
IMAGE: CNS photo/Athit Perawongmetha, Reuters By COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNS) -- At least 290 people were killed and more than 500 injured in Easter attacks on three churches and three hotels in Sri...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Adrees Latif, Reuters By Christie L. Chicoine NEW YORK (CNS) -- A delegation that includes the head of Catholic Charities of the New York Archdiocese, union leaders, state officials...
Pope Francis will visit the Balkan nations of Bulgaria and North Macedonia May 5-7, encouraging the nations' small Catholic communities, reaching out to the Orthodox and to Muslims and paying tribute...
On Easter Monday, Pope Francis led thousands of people in St. Peter's Square in praying for the hundreds of people who died or were injured in bomb blasts the previous day in Sri Lanka.
A new “super dicastery” on evangelization might be one of the most significant reforms of the governing structures of the Vatican, according to a new report.