Due to restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19, Pope Francis will celebrate the feast of All Souls with a "strictly private" Mass at a Vatican cemetery.
The formal structures that sponsor Catholic-Jewish dialogue are important, but their decades of success have relied on strong personal friendships and mutual respect, both of which must continue to...
By asking to be baptized with other penitents in the Jordan River, Jesus placed himself among those who recognized themselves as sinners, Pope Francis said.
Pope Francis has blamed “this lady called COVID” for forcing him to keep his distance again from the faithful during his general audience, which was far smaller than usual amid soaring coronavirus...
Giovanni Guida The high altar of St. Anthony’s Chapel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania At St. Anthony’s Chapel in Pittsburgh, the dead lie round — more than 5,000 of them.
Daniel Maclise, “Snap-Apple Night, On the Festival of Hallow Eve,” 1833 Here are four facets of Halloween that point to its Celtic origins as one of the traditional quarter days in Ireland.