The Pontifical Mission Societies are four different membership-based associations that formulate the missionary arm of the Catholic Church. Each has its own charism. People are most familiar with our ...

Nurses and doctors can encounter distressing images as death unfolds for their patients. Those approaching death may make odd bodily movements, give off stenches, or emit strange groans. Perhaps they ...

A holy year is an opportunity to start fresh with one's relationship with God and with other people, Pope Francis told thousands of pilgrims. The Holy Year 2025 theme, ...

Four days after Corpus Christi Church was incinerated in the Palisades Fire, Capt. Bryan Nassour of the Los Angeles Fire Department picked his way over a 6-foot layer of rubb ...

Days after a wildfire destroyed their apartment and all their earthly belongings, Raul and Claudia De La Rosa have only one thing to lean on in the face of adversity: their C ...

Several Catholic parishes opened their doors to families evacuated from their homes as wind-driven fires continued to burn through parts of Los Angeles County Jan. 8. St. Mo ...

Pilgrims from all over the Archdiocese of Boston, including Archbishop Richard G. Henning, will be heading down to Washington, D.C., next week for the 52nd annual March for Life, which wi ...

Denise Waterworth estimates that in the last 25 years, she has heard thousands of prayers. She has written them all down in a series of notebooks, meticulously kept over a quarter of a c ...

Dubbed the prayerbook of the church, the Book of Psalms was first the prayerbook of Israel and the only prayerbook of Jesus. The Holy Year booklet on this topic was written by Gianfranco Cardinal Rava ...

After more than a year of war and thousands killed or wounded, negotiators representing Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire deal. A six-week initial ceasefire phase and the gradual w ...

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) -- Las personas y las instituciones pueden proteger a los niños cambiando lo que compran y en lo que invierten, dijo el Papa Francisco.

LOS ÁNGELES (OSV News) -- Días después de que un incendio forestal destruyera su apartamento y todas sus pertenencias terrenales, Raúl y Claudia De La Rosa sólo tienen una cos ...