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Ascension Ascension’s new podcast “The Rosary in a Year” with Father Mark-Mary Ames, CFR, begins Jan. 1, 2025. Father Ames, who ex...

Philippe de Champaigne (1602–1674), “Moses with the Ten Commandments” A deep dive into Scripture reveals God’s faith in humanity’s a...

Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, California The diocese is denying allegations that it poured tens of millions of dollars i...

Various Catholic organizations aid needy populations across the country. More than half of people experiencing homelessness counted...

Former cardinal Theodore McCarrick arrives at Massachusetts’ Dedham District Courthouse for his arraignment on Sept. 3, 2021. Court...

PeopleImages Helena’s keen intelligence was matched by a passionate devotion to her Catholic faith. My mother told me that Grandma Helena...

Baudouin family “What we have to aspire to is to be saints,” the relatives of the late Belgian King Baudouin recall him urging. In...

New Orleans Police Department Father Lawrence Hecker pleaded guilty this week to kidnapping and raping a teenage boy in the 1970s, heading...

Daniel Ibañez/CNA Pope Francis prays during his Wednesday general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Oct. 9, 2024. D...

Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) Blessing of a plane at Dublin Airport. Father Doyle, who served as chaplain for 16 years, recalled...

President Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II together at the Fairbanks Airport in Fairbanks, Alaska, May 2, 1984 COMMENTARY: Revisi...

Andrew Ewell Catholic Land Movement co-founders Andrew Ewell (top left) and Michael Guidice (top right), pictured here on the steps of St....

Oleg Nikishin French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with President-elect Donald Trump at the...

Guillaume Bardet, Ionna Vautrin and Sylvain Dubuisson The altar placed at the center of the Cathedral of Notre Dame COMMENTARY: In...

President Jimmy Carter with Pope John Paul II, photograph by Bill Fitz-Patrick, Oct. 6, 1979; Pope John Paul II was the first pope to ever v...

Detail of Willem Vrelant, “The Martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket,” early 1460s, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. Ludwig IX 8 (83.ML. 104), fol. 4...

Vatican Media Pope Francis waves at pilgrims and visitors gathered for the Angelus on Dec. 29, 2024 on St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican...

Pope Francis has had a full schedule these 365 days. Above, he joins the poor for lunch on Nov. 17. Highlights of the year included...

Anthony Ricci Flags fly outside the White House in Washington, D.C. The Department of Health and Human Services issued a notice in...

The Church celebrates Mary, the Mother of God, on Jan. 1. TV PICKS 12.29.24

Giotto di Bondone, “Massacre of the Innocents,” ca. 1304-1306, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy SAINTS & ART: These martyrs of Bethleh...

Vatican Media Pope Francis leads the Angelus prayer and gives an address from the chapel of Casa Santa Marta on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024, at...

Ryan Pickering Captain of Prout Catholic High School's hockey team, Caleb Burnett helps Mrs. Lynch with the many gifts shared with her De...

Fabrizio Maffei Pope Francis speaks with a child Oct. 16 after the Wednesday audience in St. Peter’s Square. As 2024 draws to an e...

School of Upper Swabia, “Purgatory,” Museum of the Diocese of Rottenburg, Neckar, Germany The arguments for purgatory are biblical a...