From the days of the early Church, Catholicism has always emphasized stability as a means of holiness, particularly for monastics and the clergy. In the first chapter of the sixth-century …

The costs of the clerical abuse scandal in the United States soared 82% in the July 2024—June 2025 reporting year, to $483,534,316, according to the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Child …

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Sext (Midday Prayer) in Barcelona Cathedral today and reflected on the Church as Christ’s bride and body.

The director of the Vatican newspaper wrote that in Spain, Pope Leo has repeatedly been asking a decisive question: what does it mean to be human?

William Michael Harnett, “Memento Mori” (1879). Death is symbolized in this painting by the skull, the extinguished candle, the empty hourglass, and a quote from the graveyard scene in Shakespeare’s …

Pope Leo XIV encouraged an estimated 80,000 faithful of the Archdiocese of Madrid to offer joyful witness to the Gospel, with kindness.