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It was a Sunday afternoon when my eldest daughter, Ella, came upstairs to tell me in a worried voice, “Grandpa says he’s going to town. I told him that it …

A good work talked about is a good work spoiled. — St. Vincent de Paul

Pope Leo XIV today named seven new members of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, including Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, California; Bishop Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de …

A laywoman and a German bishop delivered a joint homily at Mass on July 22, despite the Vatican’s recent reaffirmation that only clergy are permitted to preach homilies during Mass. …

Over the past two decades, 91 men’s and women’s monasteries have closed in France, according to a study conducted by sociologist Isabelle Jonveaux of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. According …

A New Mexico man was charged with two counts of aggravated assault after he reportedly pulled a gun amid a priest’s argument with his girlfriend. Father Vincent Paul Chavez of …

Cardinal Mario Grech, secretary general of the General Secretariat of the Synod, called upon Asian dioceses to become more synodal with a view to exchanging their gifts with other dioceses …

The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights lamented the persecution of the Church in Nicaragua. “I am disturbed by the reports of repression against the Catholic Church and other religious …

The English bishops’ lead bishop for life issues issued a statement on the dangers of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which would legalize assisted suicide. “Assisted suicide …