Pope Leo XIV stands on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica during his first Sunday blessing. From the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, the first pontiff from the USA, the former Cardinal ...

Our Lent starts with stories that take us from the garden to the desert — symbolically as well as geographically. We begin with Adam and Eve in God’s good garden. They, like their descendants after ...

The 40 days of this year's Lenten season started this past week, on Ash Wednesday, as Christian faithful all over the world began the spiritual commemoration of the 40 days that Jesus spent in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Pope Leo XIV delivered his first ...

A woman lights a candle on the first Sunday of Advent at Our Mother of Sorrows Church in Tucson, Ariz., Dec. 3, 2023, the start of the Advent season. (OSV News photo/Bob Roller) “People will die of ...

Sunday, Dec. 1, is the First Sunday of Advent. Mass readings: Jeremiah 33:14-16; Psalm 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14; 1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2; Luke 21:25-28, 34-36. This Sunday’s Gospel is taken from the Mount ...

"And what I say to you I say to all: Watch" (Mark 13:37). This verse is from the Gospel of Mark, one of the three synoptic Gospels. The Gospel of Mark is attributed to St. Mark the Evangelist and is ...

When we were teenagers, my brother and I spent a lot of time playing the guitar and singing the folk songs of the day. Our parents loved our singing, but Mom couldn’t bear to hear us sing songs about ...