On a sunny morning during Holy Week, students at St. Rita Catholic School in Alexandria gathered in small groups to learn ...

What was he like? This is the question I’m always asked years after I met Pope Francis, shook his hand and asked him to bless ...

Late pontiff consoled civil war victims, stressed reconciliation, and called for justice for Easter Sunday bombings ...

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Fye The Catholic Messenger Jerome Richter nearly dropped to his knees in Assisi, Italy when he realized that ...Read More ...

According to the Catholic Church, there are seven Sacraments ... They even absent themselves from the Eucharist and public prayers, because they will not admit that the Eucharist is the self ...

A delegation from the Anglican Communion will attend the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome on Saturday April 26, representing ...

On the night of his election on March 13, 2013, Pope Francis told the assembled faithful from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica that “tomorrow I wish to go and pray to the Madonna.” And so he did, ...

Peruvian nun Alba Socola waited in line for almost five hours with thousands of other Catholics on Wednesday to enter St.

The battle of prayer is inseparable from the necessary "spiritual battle" to act habitually according to the Spirit of Christ: we pray as we live, because we live as we pray. The principal ...

Long lines of mourners, many waiting more than four hours under the hot Roman sun, wound around St. Peter’s Square on the ...