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By Claire Dwyer | Sunday, Dec. 15, is the Third Sunday of Advent. Mass readings: Isaiah 35:1-6A; Psalm 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11. About an hour outside of Phoenix, a church...
By Courtney Mares/CNA | VATICAN CITY — As Pope Francis blessed children's nativity scene figurines Sunday, the pope said that the Advent season is a time of conversion to make space in one’s...
By Tito Edwards | First-Ever Mass Of The Americas In Extraordinary Form Is Beautifully Breathtaking – ChurchPOP +1 Bishop Hying Of The Diocese Of Madison: “Let Advent Be Advent” – Fr. Z’s Blog +1...
By Patrick Reilly | Like many Catholics, I was encouraged by U.S. lawmakers’ plea for better enforcement of obscenity laws against pornography. What I find troubling, however, is that few Catholic...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Rhina Guidos By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The ask for baby items heading to the Holy Land couldn't be more appropriate: "swaddling clothes needed." The Gospel of...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Christmas season is a time to reflect on what life is all about, Pope Francis told an international group of performers...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' 2019-20 Christmas season celebrations will include the usual liturgies and traditions. Releasing the pope's schedule Dec. 12, the...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pope Francis said she reminds Catholics of her true essence as a woman, a mother and...
IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Los Angeles By LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Mary, the Mother of God is "the mother of all of us," Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in his homily...
For Pope Francis, 2019 included his sixth anniversary as pope, his 83rd birthday and his 50th anniversary as a priest, but it also was a year that saw him still confronted with the clerical sexual...
One great unanswerable question regarding the Catholic Church and the Holocaust is whether Jewish lives would have been saved had Pope Pius XI or his successor, Pope Pius XII, issued a statement...
As part of the celebrations for his 50th anniversary of priesthood, Pope Francis chose to personally present a multi-volume collection of writings by his longtime spiritual director, the late Jesuit...
On the rare occasions Spanish Father Jordi Bertomeu speaks, his words have weight. The CDF official recently penned a long essay on the clerical abuse crisis, pointing to many myths perpetrated by...