Pope Francis leads his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 5, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly Wednesday audience, ...

The rabbis or teachers of the Law during Jesus’ time would have agreed with him. There is actually a rabbinic term for what ...

I’m sure we have all heard that sentiment expressed. Perhaps we have thought or verbalized it ourselves. Whether at work, school or in our families, those who can add such joy and purpose to our lives ...

Pope St. John Paul II, in his 2002 Apostolic Letter, Rosarium Virginis Mariae, proposed adding a fourth quintet of mysteries to be contemplated when praying the Rosary: the Luminous Mysteries. Leaving ...

In a church in Southern England one can visit the tomb of a certain Sarah Fletcher who—according to her epitaph—died “a martyr of excessive sensibility.” This high-sounding phrase conceals the ...

A few weeks ago, as my daughter drove home from her job in St. Paul, I heard real fear in her voice — the violence from the protesting had made it within a block of her employment. The injustice and ...

There are four marks of wounded healers. Now over 200,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States, almost 70 times more than those who died in the September 11 attacks and more than the ...

This Sunday is a yearly reminder that Christ is our only Lord—and that while governments rise and fall, he is Lord eternal. I didn’t grow up in liturgical churches, and for years, I dismissed their ...

(RNS) — Liturgy is one of the topics to be discussed in Pope Leo XIV’s first extraordinary consistory, or meeting of cardinals called to advise the pope on particular topics, on Jan. 7-8. I hope the ...

LONDON — Tyburn Convent is situated in the heart of London, at the end of the busiest shopping street in Europe, Oxford Street, and facing the city’s Hyde Park. There is endless noise from the ...