ANALYSIS: The vitality of the local Catholic community is evident throughout the communist nation.

The ice structure is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s second visit to Slovakia, during which he also visited the High Tatras. The ice dome will be open to the public from ...

At the Vatican, the Christmas tree tradition dates to 1982, when a Polish farmer brought Pope John Paul II a tree “all the ...

As Archbishop Emeritus James “Jim” P. Keleher, 93, received the Last Rites, he looked around a room of friends and told each ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, an openness that allowed her to ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, an openness that allowed her to say "yes" to God's plan for the salvation of the world, Pope Francis said.

As we faced a presidential election, Pope Francis asked us to have a heart. Writing about the Sacred Heart of Jesus, he used ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, Pope Francis said.

Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

Drawing upon Pope St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body teachings ... In the conference’s closing panel discussion, Mary Rice Hasson, EPPC’s Kate O’Beirne Senior Fellow and co-founder and director ...

Pope Francis presided over the canonization ... She was beatified in 1984 by St. John Paul II, and her feast day is celebrated on May 4. Ordained a diocesan priest in 1873 in Turin, Italy, he ...

Today and tomorrow, we call to mind our special bond with believers who have passed from this life to the next, a bond that we call the Communion of Saints. We are the Church Militant, still ...