Pope encourages Swiss Guard to foster friendships, avoid isolation
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting members of the Swiss Guard, including 34 new recruits, Pope Francis thanked them for their dedication and generous service...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting members of the Swiss Guard, including 34 new recruits, Pope Francis thanked them for their dedication and generous service...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The spiritual practice of reparation "may be somewhat forgotten or wrongly judged obsolete" today, but it is essential for the promotion...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Loneliness causes tremendous harm, including to families, Pope Francis told international leaders of the Teams of Our Lady lay movement. "With...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The greatest enemy of faith is fear, Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience. That is why faith is the first gift "that...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Seminarians and religious men and women need well-rounded formation throughout their lives, not only at the onset of their religious...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Synodal assemblies and listening sessions are not a new Catholic invention; gatherings of the faithful to pray, discuss divisive...
Read MoreTURIN, Italy (OSV News) -- For the rector of the world's second largest church after St. Peter's Basilica -- the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Aparecida in...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The collaboration of laity and priests in the life of a parish and in outreach to the surrounding community "is not a strategy,"...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A foundation that promotes devotion to St. Pio of Pietrelcina, more widely known as Padre Pio, is making 10 never-before-seen photographs...
Read More(OSV News) -- Catholic agencies, along with other Christian charities in Sudan, have intensified their food distribution campaign across the country to...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- By sharing their own stories and those of their parishes, pastors from around the world can help each other see where God is present...
Read MoreVENICE, Italy (CNS) -- Visiting a lagoon of tiny islands, canals and narrow walkways for one day, Pope Francis moved around Venice by boat, bridge and...
Read MoreVENICE, Italy (CNS) -- The rusted wrought iron frame and grate of an old well became a garden of crocheted flowers inside the courtyard of the Giudecca...
Read More(OSV News) -- More than 15 million visitors are expected to descend upon the city of Paris this summer for the 2024 Olympics. The French capital will serve...
Read MoreOXFORD, England (OSV News) -- Catholic bishops in England and Wales have rejected "gender identity theory," reminding Catholic schools and parishes to...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While misusing modern forms of media dulls the mind, games like checkers are a simple way to stimulate one's intellect and foster...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis met briefly with Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Systems -- the U.S. digital communications conglomerate -- after Robbins...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Before converting to Catholicism, Michael Baggot took his questions about faith and the church to the first place many people go...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Candidates to the priesthood must integrate their spiritual, intellectual and community lives so they become pastors who can respond...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Peace can spread and grow from "small seeds" like including someone who is left out of an activity, showing concern for someone who...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The most important outcome of the current Synod of Bishops on synodality is the synodal process itself and not the hot-button topics...
Read MoreBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) -- Authorities in the city of León, Nicaragua, chose an unusual place for setting up a boxing ring and staging...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While the virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance are the marks of a righteous individual, the virtues of faith, hope...
Read MoreBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (OSV News) -- An Argentine priest who works with the country's poorest and most vulnerable people is hopeful that Pope Francis...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- As doctors were preparing to certify the brain death of a Brazilian man in 2010, members of a local Catholic charismatic prayer group...
Read More(OSV News) -- As Haiti's capital spirals into lawlessness, a longtime U.S. missionary has been forced to evacuate -- while Haitian Catholics in the U.S....
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Jesus called himself the "good shepherd," he was telling people not only that he was their guide, but that they were important...
Read MoreROME (CNS) -- The Catholic Church in the United States is grappling with a tendency to become more "auto-referential" and withdraw itself from the international...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The 2024 edition of the Vatican yearbook has inserted "Patriarch of the West" as one of the historical titles of the pope. In 2006,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis appealed to countries at war to release prisoners and offered special prayers for those who have endured torture. At...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals continued their discussions about the role of women in the church, listening...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican Secretariat of State sent a formal statement to the French Embassy to the Holy See reaffirming that Pope Francis had...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The morning after Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel, Pope Francis pleaded with nations to avoid a further escalation...
Read More(OSV News) -- A landmark report published April 10 in the United Kingdom said children had been "let down" by a lack of research on the use of puberty...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Today's "growing culture of indifference and individualism" must be countered with prayer and adoration, which inspires solidarity...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The wounds of Christ's passion and death and the stigmata given to some Christians over the centuries are reminders of "the pain...
Read MoreMEXICO CITY (OSV News) -- In an endless cycle of violence, the bishop of Orizaba, traveling with a group of priests, suffered an assault on a highway in...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- While intense feelings or drive -- passions -- are natural, Christians know they must be tamed and channeled toward what is good,...
Read MorePARIS (OSV News) -- For some, the Notre Dame fire was a sign of devastation of faith and Christian values. But for many more in France, it meant awakening...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The protection and preservation of human dignity must extend into the digital realm, the Vatican said in a new document on human...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Being a Christian means defending human dignity and that includes opposing abortion, the death penalty, gender transition surgery,...
Read MoreVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has made major changes to the Diocese of Rome, giving new positions to both Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, his vicar for...
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