Month: May 2026

In 2018 Pope Francis decreed that the ancient devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the title of Mother of the Church, be inserted into the Roman Calendar. The liturgical …

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Pentecost by highlighting the role of the Holy Spirit in his repeated calls for peace in recent months, saying the spirit also guides the Church to …

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV marked Pentecost Sunday with a plea for peace, praying that the Holy Spirit would save the world “from the evil of war” and renew …

This week the Vatican announced the upcoming release of Pope Leo XIVʼs long-awaited first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas. Amid anticipation of the encyclical there is renewed interest in what papal documents are. …

On May 24, Catholics around the world celebrate the solemnity of Pentecost — the day on which the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples of Christ who gathered in Jerusalem …

Tamika Royes suggests that Black Catholic women can help revive the Catholic Church — if only they are permitted to make full use of their gifts.

“It will come to pass in the last days,” God says, “that I will pour out a portion of my spirit upon all flesh.” – Acts 2:17

And when the days of Pentecost were drawing to a close, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a violent …

After his episcopal ordination May 16, 2019, Aclan oversaw the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’ San Fernando pastoral region until suffering a stroke in August 2022 that required hospitalization and extensive …

Scott-Vincent Borba said God “is sending me back out, cleaned up, to be able to proclaim his mercy, to proclaim his goodness, to bring people back to repentance.”