Ahead of the Jan. 7-8 gathering, four cardinals each prepared a paper for the internal use of the cardinals taking part in ...

Archbishop Dabula Mpako of South Africa’s Catholic Archdiocese of Pretoria has issued a canonical decree requiring a group of ...

St. Benedict’s Monastery held its final public Mass on Jan. 11, with four of the five remaining monks transferring to other ...

NCR readers respond to stories about Pope Leo and Vatican II, liturgical variety in the church and Vice President JD Vance's ...

Founded in 1506, the Pontifical Swiss Guard is the world’s longest continually operating army, and, with a maximum of 135 ...

While Catholics have been accustomed to the famed silver papal staff featuring the suffering of Christ crucified and used by ...

During the ceremony on Thursday evening, attended by ambassadors, diplomats, and approximately 70 priests from across the ...

In an undelivered consistory address, the prefect for the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments ...

A leaked document that was distributed to cardinals during Pope Leo XIV's first extraordinary consistory shows that any ...

Time will tell if Trump’s action proves to be a political and strategic success. Meanwhile, experts in the Catholic principles of just war maintain that the moral and ethical justification for using ...

Reacting to Bishop Michael Martin’s Dec. 17, 2025, pastoral letter announcing the impending abolishment of altar rails and ...