I often find myself not only being with Francis in prayer but asking things of him. It is important to question why I do that and why so many others do the same with their deceased loved ones.

Following the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Catholics around the country have been organizing prayerful demonstrations for immigration justice.

On Tuesday evening, Oct. 28, Pope Leo made a forceful appeal for peace at Rome’s Colosseum and in the presence of representatives of the world’s main religions.

When Pope Leo XIV was elected on May 8, he surprised the world by using a word that was likely not recognizable to most of ...

November 2, 2025, The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed: The Feast of All Souls reminds us that our loved ones shine like stars, beckoning us to eternal life in the merciful hands of God.

Nickolas Becker, O.S.B., is a Benedictine monk of Saint John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., and a visiting assistant professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University ...

How will St. John Henry Newman, who will be declared a doctor of the church on Nov. 1, be known? There is one title that ...

Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski says immigration is not a threat, but an opportunity, calling for Trump to pivot away from his ...

The past 20 years have been anything but easy for the Venezuelan people. Having not one, but two canonizations, for our first ...

Astrid Liden is the daughter of a Venezuelan mother and a Swedish father and was raised in Minnesota. She is a Rhodes scholar who recently completed a master of public policy degree at the University ...

On the same day Pope Leo’s exhortation on caring for the poor was released, a content creator at the center of internet ...

Purgatory is not some portion of the punishment that is hell. It is the sweet completion of what began under the sun.