Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11 Hebrews 10:11-14, 18 Mark 13:24-32. Jesus is on the “Mount of Olives opposite ...

Mary is a model of the kind of openness to the Holy Spirit that all Christians should have, an openness that allowed her to say “yes” to God’s plan for the salvation of the world, Pope Francis said.

Q: What scriptural basis is there for praying for the dead, for their repose, or for praying to the dead, for their ...

Archbishop Justin Welby of Canterbury, the head of the Anglican Communion, resigned Nov. 12 due to failures in dealing with a ...

The Catholic Church “always insists on the dignity of the human person from the moment of conception to the moment of natural ...

In 1918, when Benedictines in Minnesota gave Anna Cordelia Zervas her religious name, Sister Mary Annella, her mother reacted with surprise. “But there is no St. Annella,” she is reported to have said ...

(This column is part of “The Light of Faith and Care at the Sunset of Life,” a series on the Catholic Standard website and newspaper on the Catholic response to end-of-life issues. This series is done ...

Celebrating a Mass and then holding a dialogue at the annual Convocation for Permanent Deacons and Wives held Nov. 9 at St. Joseph Church in Largo, Cardinal Wilton Gregory thanked deacons and their ...

Voters in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota Nov. 5 rejected amendments to their state constitutions that would have codified ...

Just as C. Diane Biggs had always been there for them, her friends and colleagues at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center gathered at the St. Ursula Chapel in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Nov. 5 for her ...

Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, issued the following statement Nov. 6 following the 2024 general election held yesterday: “Today, as our nation prepares to take a new direction ...