Catholic faithful do not "buy" Masses, but when a priest accepts an offering and promises to celebrate a Mass for that person ...

Lawyer Laura Sgrò, left, listens to Gloria Branciani during a press conference in Rome, Feb. 21, 2024. Branciani is one of ...

For Pope Francis, the answer is clear: “Easter belongs to Christ!” the pontiff declared in September 2024, when he met with representatives of the Pasqua Together 2025 Initiative, an assemblage of ...

A Garda complaint has been made about a fundamentalist Catholic group based in Cork, which has allowed a defrocked priest to say mass despite alleged safeguard breaches. The Society of St Pius ...

Archbishop Joseph Naumann is retiring after turning 75 in June 2024 and after 20 years at the helm of the Archdiocese of ...

The Dicastery for the Clergy published a decree, approved by Pope Francis, aiming to clarify and regulate Mass intentions, for which the faithful pay an offering. The decree is a way to respond to ...

Pope Francis has named Bishop William Shawn McKnight of Jefferson City, Missouri, as Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann's successor ...

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently ... the Council of Elvira, a local church council in Spain, passed specific legislation condemning abortion (Canon 63). After the legalization of ...

A historic Preston church is to be remodelled in order to reinstate aspects of its original design that were undone by an ...

Well before the French-Canadian parish completed the present upper church in the south end of Fall River in 1906, the basement shrine to St. Anne (the mother of Mary and therefore grandmother of Jesus ...

St Walburge’s Church is planning to restore its sanctuary area to a layout its parish priest believes is more suited ...

America has been around long enough that an article in the magazine’s back pages actually commemorates the last centennial anniversary of the Council of Nicaea. Writing in 1925, the author claimed a ...