A new study indicates a growing number of U.S. adults see religion as gaining influence in public life -- with more Americans saying religion has a positive impact on society. In additi ...

Sacramental marriage and traditional family life increase joy in the good times, give strength during hard times and are a path to true holiness, Pope Leo XIV said. Marking the ...

Georgetown University's board of directors unanimously voted to name Eduardo M. Peñalver, president of Seattle University, as the 49th president of Georgetown University ...

Pope Leo XIV met with a coalition of survivors of abuse and victims' advocates for the first time at the Vatican Oct. 20. Members of the board of Ending Clergy Abuse met with th ...

Canonizing seven new saints on World Mission Sunday, Pope Leo XIV said God is present wherever the innocent suffer, and his form of justice is forgiveness.

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Bishop Mark O’Connell the 11th Bishop of the Diocese of Albany, New York. He will succeed Bishop Edward Scharfenberger, 77, whose resignation due to age was accepted Oc ...

President Donald Trump announced a policy proposal Oct. 16 to increase access to in vitro fertilization, including issuing guidance urging employers to offer fertility benefit ...

A funeral urn filled with ashes was found abandoned in 2022 on a park bench in Tennessee, more than 1,000 miles east of Minneapolis. As Jamie Moloney, director of pastoral o ...

Pope Leo XIV traveled 23 miles by car to board the "Bel Espoir" sailboat and speak to the crew about peacemaking. The boat, whose name means "beautiful hope," had spent the previous eight months ...

The second reading, which is the third biblical text assigned to each Sunday, is always from the New Testament. It is either from one of the apostolic letters, written by Paul, Peter, James, John, Jud ...

On the surface, Sean Brown leads a life not that different from any other 18-year-old. The 2025 Bishop Feehan graduate works as a landscaper, makes sandwiches at Jersey Mike's, and a ...

I write this with a sense of urgency: this is our largest celebration of the year, helping to replenish the General Solidarity Fund that will support mi ...