Pope Francis chose to let his 10th anniversary pass with no great ceremony and little public comment. Yet subsequently he seemed to be reflecting on his decade in the See of Peter and lamenting that ...

Amid the debate about whether Catholic public figures who support abortion should be permitted to receive Holy Communion, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois said this week that the most ...

This has to be a wake-up call for all of us. The Second Vatican Council clearly taught that the Holy Eucharist is “the source and summit of the whole Christian life” (Lumen Gentium, 11). Pope St. John ...

The Catholic Church once used to encourage a practice which it called examining the conscience. Maybe it still does, I don't know, but you don't much hear tell of it, certainly not compared to the ...

There is an old saying among priests—or a saying among old priests, I cannot remember which—that hearing a grandmother’s confession means listening to what everyone else has done wrong, how they have ...

Pope Francis meets a group of five Kenyan acrobats after their performance as the Black Blues Brothers during the general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican Nov. 30, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul ...