Active-duty military service members have new pathway to become chaplains
Acting Secretary of the U.S. Navy Hung Cao announced the Chaplain In-Service Procurement Program on Oct. 30, describing it as a new pathway for active-duty Navy and Marine Corps personnel…
This is Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of November
Pope Leo XIV’s prayer intention for the month of November is for the proper use of wealth. “What is wealth to you? Millions in a bank account? A huge house…
Mexican priest recovers from kidnapping ordeal
Mexican priest Father Clemente Morales Topete endured beatings, burns, and death threats after being abducted by a group of unknown individuals who held him captive for three days. Bishop José…
National Vocation Awareness Week highlights call to priesthood, religious life
The U.S. Catholic Church is observing National Vocation Awareness Week to increase awareness and support for those discerning ordained ministry or consecrated life. New York Archbishop Ronald Hicks, chair of…
Wildfire smoke, conflict, and conversion: Asian Laudato Si’ groups compare notes in Philippines
Smoke from wildfires in Indonesia shut every school in East Timor for three days in October. A young Catholic from the small Southeast Asian nation brought that story to a…
Pope Leo XIV to young people: Make room for Christ whenever you feel lonely
Pope Leo XIV, in a message for this year’s 41st World Youth Day (WYD), encouraged young people to be courageous in an age of loneliness. “Some of you know what…
The mission: Pope Leo XIV in South America
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV leaves Rome on Friday, Nov. 6, for an apostolic journey to South America, his first visit there since his election as pope. The trip…
Leo XIV: Faith assures us that ‘our bond with the faithful departed has not been broken’
Continuing a tradition begun by St. John Paul II in the late 1970s, Pope Leo XIV visited a cemetery outside the Vatican on Nov. 2 — the day the Catholic…
Pope Leo XIV to return to Chiclayo in Peru and the places that shaped his ministry
The Chiclayo Cathedral, a chapel dedicated to St. Nicholas of Tolentino, and the town of Zaña where St. Turibius of Mogrovejo died all have ties to the ministry of the…
Notre Dame bests Villanova in Eternal City Tip-Off basketball games
ROME — Notre Dame defeated Villanova in the D1 college basketball season openers on Sunday, Nov. 1, with final scores of 74-72 for the men’s game and 99-75 for the…
Polish bishops appeal for dialogue as constitutional court standoff deepens
Polandʼs bishops have appealed for de-escalation and prayer amid a deepening standoff over the countryʼs Constitutional Tribunal, warning that the dispute is driving a “deep crisis of the state.” “It…
‘Love transcends death’: How Singapore’s Chinese Catholics remember their dead
SINGAPORE — At some Catholic funeral wakes in Singapore, visitors are given red strings and invited to join in prayers for the souls of the dead. As they leave, they…