A united Church, a sign of unity and communion, which becomes leaven for a reconciled world.” This is “the first great desire ...

Pope Leo XIV presents the pallium to Archbishop W. Shawn McKnight of Kansas City, Kan., during Mass on June 29 ...

By Edoardo Giribaldi Pope Leo XIV presided over the celebration of Sunday's Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, patrons of ...

Pope Leo XIV presents the pallium to Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of Washington during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the ...

Archbishop Midyphil Billones of Jaro will receive the pallium from Pope Leo XIV during a Mass for the Solemnity of Saints ...

In our lives, we are often like Goldilocks. We make it our life’s goal to be comfortable. We want everything to be just right ...

I am a psychotherapist — a mental health professional — who went to an institute for training over 20 years ago.

The arrival of the annual Solemnity of Corpus Christi — the most holy Body and Blood of Christ—impresses upon us the unmistakable, unsurpassable gift that Jesus left behind. It has been nearly 2,000 ...

Confession Wearing religious symbols, devotions and other practices Traditional Latin Mass Anointing of the sick Going to Mass and receiving Communion Overall, about three-in-ten U.S. Catholics say ...

Receiving Communion on the hand, Father Balvodin points out, is a return to a liturgical form practiced for 10 centuries by the church, dating back to its earliest days.

Fr. John P. Beal, a professor of canon law at the Catholic University of America, said that a person banned from receiving Communion can ask for a review or a kind of appeal under canon law ...

Receiving Communion is a “pretty crucial and beautiful reminder for us to retain that hope in what seems to be an increasingly hopeless situation in the world around us,” he added.