. . . Thanksgiving is still Thanksgiving even when or if it lacks the trappings we hope it will have. It is a reminder that ...

History has shown that collectively America's bishops have taken controversial stands that have helped animate and even shape the national discussion. Perhaps most noteworthy was their 1919 ...

On Nov. 2, the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great Irish famine that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus of Iris ...

Pope Leo XIV processes into St. Peter’s Basilica Nov. 3, 2025, to celebrate a memorial Mass for Pope Francis and all the cardinals and bishops who have died in the past year. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) ...

Jn 2:13-22 Happy Church Day! As feast days go, this Sunday is one of the more unusual ones on the church calendar. We don't commemo ...

Q: In an earlier column, you said that purgatory was a state outside of time and that we can't talk about how long someone spends in purgatory in terms of years. But then why do you sometimes see ...

President Donald Trump said Oct. 31 he would place Nigeria on a religious freedom watch list in response to violence in that country perpetuated against predominantly Christia ...

A delegation of clergy, religious sisters and laity, together with a Chicago auxiliary bishop, were barred for the second time in three weeks from bringing the Eucharist to those ...

The same day Pope Leo XIV proclaimed St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church, he also named the British saint patron of the Pontifical Urbanian University in Rome. In a doc ...

The world is thirsting for peace and for an end to abuses of power and indifference to the rule of law, Pope Leo XIV said at ...

In a world filled with noise and constant motion, Glastonbury Abbey in Hingham, Massachusetts, is extending a rare invitation ...

For the past 40 years, undocumented immigration has been fueled by a lack of legal avenues for immigrant workers to fill ...