IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Junno Arocho Esteves VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- After Pope Francis and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met privately for nearly an hour at the Vatican, Pence told the pope...
IMAGE: CNS photo/AAP Image, Coulson Aviation via Reuters By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Representatives of the U.S. bishops expressed sorrow after three U.S. firefighters died in an air crash while fighting...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Sarah Webb, CatholicPh By Matthew Gambino PHILADELPHIA (CNS) -- Proclaiming his successor as "exactly the man our church needs," Archbishop Charles J. Chaput introduced...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia and has appointed Bishop Nelson J. Perez of Cleveland as...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Ignatius Press By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The following is a short excerpt from the essay, "The Catholic Priesthood," by retired Pope Benedict XVI. The essay appears in the...
By Joseph Pronechen | On July 13, 2015, Christina Frye was 15 weeks pregnant when she returned a phone call left for her from her Ob/Gyn’s office. Christina had taken a prenatal screening test that...
By Kevin Di Camillo | What is “spiritual direction”? Unlike the Sacrament of Penance, the study of systematic theology, or the corporal works of mercy, spiritual direction is a much less easily...
By Peter Jesserer Smith | Millennial Catholic author and speaker Katie Prejean was an early adopter of social media: Only about 5% of Americans used Facebook when she created an account in 2005. At...
By Matt D’Antuono | It turns out that St. Francis de Sales is not the patron saint of shoppers; he is the patron saint of writers, and it is his writing that forced me to consider the question...
By Catholic News Agency | WASHINGTON, D.C. — An estimated 18,000 young Catholics from around the country filled the Capital One Arena in downtown Washington, DC, Friday morning for the...