This scene from the film "Sacré Coeur," depicts St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to whom Jesus was showing his heart between 1673 ...

When Msgr. John McLaughlin was asked to serve as the Archdiocese of the Military Services' first-ever vocations director, he took the assignment for ...

Because J.R.R. Tolkien was a serious Catholic, one might assume that religion would be evident in his literary masterpiece.

May 28 marked 150 years since the blessing of the cornerstone of one of Boston's great churches, the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The origins of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (also known ...

We interrupt this Communion Rite . . . These may not be the introductory words used, but they might well be. At some point, the principal celebrant intervenes with something like this: ...

In 1926, Pope Pius XI established World Mission Sunday, an annual day to celebrate the mission of the Church. His purpose was to unite the whole of the Catholic world in prayerful support of the missi ...

We draw the Easter season to a close by celebrating the Ascension of the Lord, and then Pentecost, and then the Solemnity of ...

Eight people received degrees from St. John's Seminary's Theological Institute in a Mass celebrated by Bishop Cristiano Barbosa on May 21. The Theological Institute provides forma ...

On the cusp of the United States' 250th anniversary and Colorado's 150th, the centennial state and its Catholic witnesses ...

Physician-assisted suicide involves asking a medical professional to write a prescription for a toxic drug so that a patient ...

The next several columns will be reports from parishes about what's happening during the distribution of Holy Communion.

Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, is pictured in an undated portrait. Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on artificia ...