A man urinated on the Altar of Confession at Vatican City’s St. Peter’s Basilica during morning Holy Mass, stunning hundreds of worshippers. Security sprinted up the steps to escort the unidentified ...

But after some comments in Italian, he agreed to "one question" from the EWTN network. It focused on Chicago Cardinal ... Durbin consistently backs abortion rights and remains barred from receiving ...

A delegation of Catholic priests, nuns and lay leaders were among hundreds of people from Chicago and the suburbs who marched from Maywood to Broadview Saturday in hopes of delivering Holy Communion ...

As an academic specialising in gender and the church, the news that Bishop Sarah Mullally would be the next archbishop of Canterbury came as a pleasant shock to me. The announcement of a woman as ...

For the first time since being elected in May, Pope Leo XIV waded into U.S. politics, criticizing those who say they're against abortion but support the death penalty, saying that's "not really ...

The holiest Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur, begins at sundown today, Oct. 1, described as the Day of Atonement where fasting, prayer and repentance will take place for 25 hours. While Americans should be ...

Maj. Gen. Phil Brooks, center, observes students disable drones at the Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems University. (Christopher Wilson/Army) Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll says he is ...

(RNS) — For early Christians, standing was a sign of freedom and Easter joy, because we stand with the risen Lord. Kneeling was seen as a sign of penance. (RNS) — In the United States, Catholics kneel ...

CHICAGO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Sitting alone at her dining room table this past Sunday, Doris Aguirre took a bite of a soda cracker and a sip of the orange juice she had prepared to represent the body ...

CHARLOTTE — The city is expecting 10,000 people to participate in the Diocese of Charlotte Eucharistic Congress this weekend. Road closures for the Diocese of Charlotte Eucharistic Congress Starting ...

According to Augustine, when we stand around the altar at the Eucharist as a community and sincerely pray the Lord’s Prayer, any sins we have committed are forgiven.... - Published on August 15, 2025 ...

The very title of Pope Saint John Paul II’s 2003 encyclical “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” (“The Church of the Eucharist”) tells us clearly that the Eucharist is at the heart of who we are as Catholics and ...