During the Mass, the bishop blesses the Oil of Chrism that ... "Triduum,” or three, of Holy Week. These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church. This Mass stresses the importance ...

The year 2025 is a Year of Jubilee : an event held every quarter-century that calls Catholics around the world to embark on a ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion ... believed that Mary had conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, and through her, Jesus Christ — second person of the ...

Pope Francis has dissolved a Catholic religious community with members across South America and the United States, following ...

On the first day of his second administration, Donald Trump issued a flurry of executive orders, declaring national ...

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo, 75, resigned from the archdiocese after expanding Catholicism throughout southeast Texas.

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae ...

In a historic moment, Pope Francis elevated Archbishop George Jacob Koovakad to the rank of Cardinal, making him the first Catholic priest from India to be directly appointed to the rank. The 51 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis kicked off the 2025 Holy Year on Tuesday, inaugurating a celebration of the Catholic Church ...

Pope Francis made a visit on Thursday to one of the largest prison complexes in Italy, opening a special "Holy Door" for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, in what the Vatican said was the first such ...

Msgr. Liam Kidney, left, and Msgr. Lloyd Torgerson are pictured at St. Monica Church with the tabernacle recovered Jan. 11, ...

Pope Francis made a visit on Thursday to one of the largest prison complexes in Italy, opening a special “Holy Door” for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, in what the Vatican said was the first ...