Many who know him said that Francis, driven by a sense of mission and a discipline born of his early training, essentially ...

The Vatican Press Office said on Saturday morning that the Sunday Angelus prayer will be delivered only as a written text, like last Sunday. The press office also said early on Saturday that Pope ...

Lent has a single focus and makes singular demands. Three books explore this focus and offer resources to meet the claims the ...

Further reading: Bishop in "Les Misérables" and re-founder of Solesmes both on path to sainthood He also initiated L’Année Liturgique (The Liturgical Year), a missal allowing all the faithful ...

A news item this week brought flooding back the day in 1979 when I took the gorgeous new barmaid at my local pub on our first ...

Don’t be surprised if you hear two versions of the local translation of the most popular devotional prayer to the Virgin Mary ...

“I’m a Catholic priest,” he quips ... At his parish in Spring, Moses hears daily confessions and leads Mass. He is on call to ...

The weekend of Nov. 27 begins the most dramatic changes seen in the Catholic Mass since those that came as a result of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. It should be clearly said what is ...

I recently met with a student, a young African-American Catholic who is more familiar ... while some followed it in missals that contained both Latin and English texts. Vatican II changed all ...

The late Archbishop Fulton Sheen, in his famous book “Your Life is Worth Living,” poses the question, “Why did God not choose angels to be priests?” (paraphrase, p. 293). It would seem that angels ...

A former teacher has been charged with rape in an investigation into child sexual abuse by staff at a Catholic school in Southampton. Edward George Waller, 65, is due in court to answer ...

Kwofie declared that catholic membership in Freemasonry remains forbidden. According to him, “faithful who enroll in Masonic associations are in a state of grave sin and may not receive Holy ...