Cardinal Czerny said Pope Leo XIV will celebrate a private Mass using the new prayer formulas in Castel Gandolfo on July 9.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Catholic priests will now be able to celebrate Mass “for the care of creation” after the Vatican ...

As a suburban hospital aims to eliminate labor and delivery services, a community is reacting with shock and outrage at the news. Ascension Alexian Brothers Hospital in Elk Grove Village made the ...

The woman who presents having contractions is only deemed stable under the following circumstances: 1) the infant and the placenta are delivered, 2) labor contractions cease, or 3) a physician ...

The next phase in the life of Laudato Si', the decade-old encyclical on ecology, will not be defined by its author, Pope ...

176 pages ; 22 cm In his second encyclical, "Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home", Pope Francis draws all Christians into a dialogue with every person on the planet about our common home. We as ...

When the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2015 — the same year Laudato Si' was released — the global community pledged to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels.

English Birth Girdles: Devotions for Women in "Travell of Childe" By Mary Morse In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn ...

A new mom says she wants to rename her 7-month-old baby after her husband named the child while she underwent a cesarean section. She gave him three rules while she was in labor, and he broke them ...

Object Details Artist Chobunsai Eishi 鳥文斎栄之 (1756-1829) School/Tradition Ukiyo-e Provenance To 1905 Yamanaka & Company, to 1905 [1] From 1905 to 1919 Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from ...

The leaders of a sex-focused women's wellness company that promoted "orgasmic meditation" were found guilty Monday in what has been described as an abusive scheme to coerce their employees into ...