The Prefecture of the Papal Household announces Pope Leo’s pastoral day visits in Italy this year, including Pompeii, Naples, ...

Pope Leo XIV sends a note to Bishops inviting them to embed Vatican News' new video widget in the web pages of dioceses, ...

Lacking heat due to Russia's targeted attacks on Ukraine's energy system, Ukrainians must survive as temperatures plunge to ...

By Patrick J. Passmore Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan of Waterford and Lismore in Ireland spent Ash Wednesday on the streets of ...

The state of the world, Pope Leo stressed, asks us on this Ash Wednesday “to call death for what it is, and to carry its ...

Pope Leo XIV invited the Legionaries of Christ’s leaders to recall that authority in religious life must serve the common life and focus a congregation’s members on Christ, while “avoiding every form ...

The practice goes back to the early Church, when Christianity began organizing public worship in Rome. After the Edict of Milan in 313, when the emperor Constantine granted freedom of worship, ...

Pope Leo XIV invites priests of Diocese of Rome to rekindle their gift of the faith, proclaim the Gospel, be close to families and young people, and support one another in priestly fraternity, ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, presides over an outdoor Ash Wednesday Mass and procession, recalling immigrants in particular and saying the sign of the cross marked by the ashes they ...

By Kielce Gussie Ash Wednesday signals not only the start of Lent but also a call to remember those in the Holy Land. Each year, the Pro Terra Sancta Collection (Collection for the Holy Land) invites ...

“This is also reflected in the ashes of international law and justice among peoples, the ashes of entire ecosystems and harmony among peoples, the ashes of critical thinking and ancient local wisdom, ...

Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18, beginning a season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving in the Catholic Church.