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“Please let’s pray for peace, let’s do penance for peace,” he said during his general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

And yet, comments Vice President JD Vance made on the order of love -- ordo amoris -- in an interview with Sean Hannity have ...

Pope Francis has been hospitalized in an attempt to deal with his ongoing bronchitis treatment, which he was diagnosed with ...

The U.S. bishops' migration chair called recent comments by Vice President JD Vance about the church's work with migrants "a ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the complicated life of Catholic kitsch ...