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VATICAN CITY — Sixty years after the Second Vatican Council’s declaration Nostra Aetate, the Vatican is calling for a renewed approach to interreligious dialogue aimed at fostering peaceful coexistence without…
VATICAN CITY — As artificial intelligence reshapes workplaces and corporate decision-making, labor leaders and Catholic bishops are calling for workers to have a direct voice in how the technology is…
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV said Wednesday that the diversity of the world’s peoples “must not be considered as a danger or a threat, but rather as a resource…
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Newark, New Jersey, auxiliary bishop Michael Saporito as the new bishop of the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey. The Vatican announced his appointment on Sept.…
The Catholic Church has documented 304 martyrs in Latin America so far this century. These are men and women killed not only for professing their faith but also for defending…
Cardinal Michael Czerny, SJ, former prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, will be honored as the first recipient of the Pope Leo XIV Sustainability Medal in October.…
Pope Leo XIV marked his 71st birthday at the Vatican with the launch of an art exhibit focused on water at the Vatican Apostolic Library on Monday. The pontiff inaugurated…
Catholics can now access AI tools that assist in prayer and Bible study, offering real-time reflections, language translation, and scriptural summaries. While these innovations provide immediate access to spiritual insights,…
There’s a quiet moment before the opening hymn when the priest processes to the altar, marking the start of a structured, centuries-old liturgy. You’ll observe rituals rooted in scripture and…
mortal sin strikes at the heart of your spiritual life, capable of severing your relationship with God, while venial sin weakens it without destroying divine grace. You face both in…
Most Catholics enter a quiet booth or reconciliation room, speak their sins aloud, and receive absolution from a priest-because the Church teaches that Christ instituted this sacrament as the ordinary…
Just because you don’t find the word “purgatory” in Scripture doesn’t mean the concept lacks biblical grounding, and the Church’s teaching rests on a cohesive interpretation of sacred texts and…