Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan, visiting from the patriarchate in Beirut, led about 20,000 Christians through the streets of Qaraqosh Palm Sunday, March 28.

Los sacerdotes deben seguir el ejemplo de Jesús, el buen pastor, que dio su vida no solo por su rebaño, sino también por las ovejas que se extraviaron, dijo el papa Francisco.

Glenda Melgar manifestó que se sorprendió y se sintió tentada cuando comenzó a escuchar lo que estaba sucediendo en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México: el presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, había dicho que permitiría que cualquier persona que ingresara al país dentro de los primeros 100 días de su presidencia se podía quedar.

The secretary-general of the Russian bishops' conference said new legal regulations will give state officials extra powers to intervene in church life and revive communist-era restrictions.

The Mexican bishops' migrant ministry says people are arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border with illusions of easily entering the United States, but they risk being returned to Mexico under rules for expelling people rapidly during the pandemic.

Father Jorge Ortiz-Garay of Brooklyn, the first U.S. priest to die from complications of COVID-19, was recalled as "a good and saintly priest" by his bishop during a bilingual Mass marking the first anniversary of his death.

While Catholics in Myanmar observed Palm Sunday, many in the Buddhist-majority country were crying at the funerals of more than 100 people killed the previous day.

With Italy already facing a diminishing population, low birth rates and fewer religious and civil marriages, the COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted those numbers for 2020, according to the Italian National Institute of Statistics.

A suicide bomb attack on a Catholic cathedral compound shattered the calm of Palm Sunday Mass, leaving two bombers dead and at least 20 people wounded.

riests must follow the example of Jesus, the good shepherd, who laid down his life not just for his flock but also for the sheep that strayed away, Pope Francis said.

Signaling further reforms of the Vatican City State penal code, particularly when it comes to financial crimes, Pope Francis said the laws must reflect "the equality of all members of the church" by doing away with "privileges that go back in time and are no longer in keeping with the responsibility of each for building up of the church."

The palm tree fronds in the convent garden of the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary rustle loudly in the brisk wind of an early spring dust storm, but, stepping into the chapel of the Church of the Beatitudes, there is silence.

A new effort in the form of a late strike-everything amendment (HB 2494) to have priests violate the Seal of Confession was heard this week in the Senate Education Committee where it failed to pass on a 4-4 vote.

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama, is working with at least 60 families whose homes sustained damage in a spring tornado.

Mario Fierro was "all in" to his students, his players and his faith. That's how colleagues described his approach to life.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced March 25 that one of the three new Staten Island Ferry boats transporting people between Staten Island and lower Manhattan will be named for Catholic Worker Movement co-founder Dorothy Day, whose sainthood cause is being considered by the Vatican.

Just before 8 a.m. March 22, nine people gathered outside St. Olaf Parish in downtown Minneapolis in a garden dedicated to St. Francis to pray that saint's famous prayer: "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace."

En su Carta Apostólica "Candor lucis aeternae", publicada hoy, el Papa Francisco recuerda el VII centenario de la muerte de Dante Alighieri, subrayando la actualidad, perennidad y profundidad de la fe de la "Divina Comedia".

En esta nueva predicación de Cuaresma en preparación a la Pascua, a la que asistió esta mañana el Papa Francisco, junto a los Cardenales, Arzobispos, Obispos, Prelados de la Familia Pontificia, con los empleados de la Curia Romana y del Vicariato de Roma y los Superiores generales o los Procuradores de las Órdenes religiosas pertenecientes a la Capilla Pontificia, el Predicador de la Casa Pontificia abordó el tema de la persona de Jesús de Nazaret

When facing huge difficulties or suffering, St. Paul reminds people that nothing can overpower or end God's love for his people, said the preacher of the papal household.