Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners a piece of chalk, a small bottle of holy water ... is the Social Media Manager for Catholic News Agency. She received her degree in ...

Pilgrims who visit Rome during the Jubilee, a holy year celebrated every 25 years, will have the opportunity to receive a plenary indulgence by passing through the doors.

Pope Francis called on Catholics to become “pilgrims of hope” in a BBC podcast, emphasizing that “hope and kindness touch the ...

The 2024 National Eucharistic Congress was a capstone event during the third year of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ initiative to renew faith in the Eucharistic Lord. The five-day congress ...

The Catholic calendar has several ways to divide ... and the feast of the Holy Innocents, Dec. 28. As the Book of Acts recounts, St. Stephen was a deacon who was the first martyr after the ...

Pope Francis opens the Holy Door at Rome’s Rebibbia Prison ... Courtney Mares is a Rome Correspondent for Catholic News Agency. A graduate of Harvard University, she has reported from news ...