By Catholic News Agency | LINCOLN, Neb. — Bishop James Conley announced Friday that he is taking a medical leave of absence from his ministry as Bishop of Lincoln, Neb. “I have been...
By Rick Becker | “I know that, if I do what I think God wants me to do, he will take care of my family.” ~ Bl. Franz Jägerstätter I’ll get around to Terrence Malick’s new film...
By Jim Schroeder | The people in the Great Flood. The Egyptians in the Red Sea. The residents of Sodom and Gomorrah. The firstborn in Egypt. Israelites in multiple plagues. Amorites in a hailstorm...
By Alexandra Greeley | Pastor of Saint Bernadette Catholic Church in Buffalo, New York, Father Paul D. Seil has merged his Catholic faith with his culinary passion. The result: he is the star of the...
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...
Pope Francis was to mark his 50th anniversary as a priest Friday by paying homage to his spiritual father, a fellow Argentine Jesuit whose teachings on popular piety and discernment have had an...
Although superficially, "The Two Popes" is about an imagined conversation between Pope Benedict XVI and then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio - today Pope Francis - for the director of the...
Inspiring "missionary disciples" rather than church-maintenance workers and building up the unity of the Church in a polarized world were some of the topics on the table when 26 U.S...