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Book cover of ‘When the Light Finds Us’ by Judy Henderson In the darkness of incarceration, Judy discovered a deeper purpose: to be...

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Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, prefect emeritus of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, celebrates the seventh Novendiales Mass for Pope Fra...

Daniel Ibanez The casket carrying the remains of Pope Francis enters St. Peter's Square to begin the funeral Mass on April 26, 2025....

Farragutful via Wikimedia Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Camden, New Jersey. The state Supreme Court said in March that...

Mitz There’s good evidence that events in the days leading up to a conclave can influence who emerges wearing white. ANALYSIS: Th...

Enguerrand Quarton, “The Virgin of Mercy” (Detail), 1452, Musée Condé, Chantilly, France; Background: Stefano Tamarro The Church sta...

Anthony Pizzoferrato Armenians carry a massive Artsakh flag — a symbol of the Nagorno-Karabakh region’s Armenian heritage — during a March...

LOR Pope Francis meets director Martin Scorsese in the Vatican on Nov. 30, 2016. The documentary will show the short films of par...

Simun Galic ‘Crosier’ COMMENTARY: Ecclesiology, not just personality, is at stake in this conclave. A new pope must resist false r...

Raphael, ‘Christ’s Charge to Peter,’ 1515 User’s Guide to the Third Sunday of Easter

Daniel Ibanez/Vatican Media Tens of thousands of young pilgrims, who took part in Jubilee of Teenagers festivities from April 25-27, 2025,...

Gustave Eugène Castan (1823-1892), “Children Picking Flowers in an Alpine Landscape” Josef Pieper, Whittaker Chambers, and Moses al...

Wikimedia Commons Pope John Paul II faced communism. Pope Benedict XVI faced relativism. Pope Francis faced a fractured world. The next p...

CatholicVote president Brian Burch speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on his nomination for to be ambassador to the...

Daniel Ibañez Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández elevates the chalice during the sixth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on May 1, 2025, in...

Wikimedia Commons/Official Portrait (Top L-R) Cardinal Raymond Burke. Cardinal Blase Cupich. Cardinal Joseph Tobin. Cardinal Robert Prevo...

Pope Francis celebrates Mass in the chapel of the Casa Santa Marta on May 1, 2020, the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. Francis issue...

JHVEPhoto FDA headquarters in Washington. The study found that more than 1 in 10 women who use mifepristone experience adverse sid...

lobia National Shrine and Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Sheshan, also known as Basilica of Mary, Help of Christians, in Shanghai, China....

Nathália Queiroz/ACI Digital Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, the oldest person in the world, died April 30. The year she was born, St...

Marco Iacubucci A sea of red hats as cardinals meet in Rome in April 2024. COMMENTARY: Drawing on the best of the Francis papacy,...

Courtesy photo Members of the Catholic Theological Association of Nigeria (CATHAN) pledged to uphold the “theological and pastoral legacy...

Daniel Ibañez/CNA Cardinals participate in the fifth Novendiales Mass for Pope Francis on April 30, 2025, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the V...

Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, “St. Joseph and the Sleeping Christ Child” (Detail), ca. 1668-75, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Miss...