Pope Francis told the estimated 800,000 young people praying the Stations of the Cross together at World Youth Day in Portugal on Friday evening that Jesus can open the windows of the soul and wipe ...

Do you ever hear people say things like “that’s her cross to bear” or “everyone has their own cross to bear” or “his illness is a real cross”? I’m not always comfortable with the implications I hear ...

"But we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles" (1 Corinthians 1:23). We repeat St. Paul's statement of faith at every Mass ...

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An old hymn asks the following questions: "Why did He go to Calvary? Why was His life's blood shed for me?" The song’s chorus says that He loves us, and that is the reason that Jesus suffered on the ...

Pope Francis leaves the parish of Serafina at the end of a meeting with represenatitves of some aid and charity centers ahead of Sunday’s 37th World Youth Day in Lisbon on Friday, Aug. 4, 2023.

How do we know this? Well, because somebody found some of that 1,300-year-old bread.

When he arrived at Christ Episcopal Church, a suburban congregation outside Cleveland, in September 2024, the Rev. Charles Graves IV said, one of his first encounters with a parishioner was a word of ...

The Sagrada Família has reached a major construction milestone with the installation of the first element of the cross atop the Tower of Jesus, marking the ...