The appointment marks a major step in Pope Francis’ aim to give women more leadership roles in governing the church.

Good reading so often goes with good eating, as both are vehicles for communion with God and each other. To whet your ...

Pope Francis has appointed a supporter of allowing pro-abortion Catholic politicians to receive communion to lead the Roman ...

Pope Francis named Cardinal Robert McElroy of San Diego, a San Francisco native, as the archbishop of Washington, tapping one of his most progressively like-minded allies to head the Catholic Church ...

Outspokenly progressive, Cardinal McElroy is now poised to take over the ecclesiastical territory of the nation’s capital ...

All fifth Sundays are a joint service of the two churches with communion rotating between the Episcopal tradition and the ...

While I would never wish this disease on anyone, it has prompted a personal eucharistic revival of sorts within my own ...

A plenary indulgence is remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.

Bishops worldwide celebrated the opening of the 2025 Holy Year Dec. 29 with Masses in their cathedrals and co-cathedrals to ...

The Associated Press Catholic faithful cross Holy Door in the Vatican to receive indulgence Posted: December 25, 2024 | Last updated: December 25, 2024 Faithful from all over the word started ...

Since the first Holy Year in 1300, passing through the Holy Door or one of the three doors at the other Papal Basilicas has allowed pilgrims to receive indulgences, meaning 'the forgiveness of sins'.