Days after a wildfire destroyed their apartment and all their earthly belongings, Raul and Claudia De La Rosa have only one ...

Q: Some Evangelical friends were recently quizzing me on the Catholic understanding of baptism. They were especially asking ...

As we get further from the pandemic crisis that gripped the world in 2020, I hope that we are willing to examine our choices ...

Her wide smile and eyes beaming with joy are a signature of Sister Clare Crockett, a 33-year-old Northern Irish nun, who ...

The Liturgy last week revealed the mystery of God's plan -- that in Jesus all peoples, symbolized by the Magi, have been made ...

I have trouble talking about the loss without tearing up, as if the smoke and ash from Los Angeles traveled across country to ...

The Pontifical Mission Societies are four different membership-based associations that formulate the missionary arm of the Catholic Church. Each has its own charism. People are most familiar with our ...

Dubbed the prayerbook of the church, the Book of Psalms was first the prayerbook of Israel and the only prayerbook of Jesus. The Holy Year booklet on this topic was written by Gianfranco Cardinal Rava ...

(OSV News) -- As Catholic Christians, we are taught to forgive others, to reconcile with our neighbor, to seek out amicable ways to end grudges and angry separations; yet we have been part of a grudge ...

Nurses and doctors can encounter distressing images as death unfolds for their patients. Those approaching death may make odd bodily movements, give off stenches, or emit strange groans. Perhaps they ...

"All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ for he himself will say, I was a stranger and you welcomed me." -- Rule of Benedict, 53:1 A woman was walking on the grounds of ...

Hours after Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego was announced Jan. 6 as the new archbishop of Washington, the prelate ...