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The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us. It is a time in America when people of all faiths express their appreciation for God’s abundant gifts, including life, faith, family, friends, country and the food many of us enjoy around a table filled with love and joy.
If you walked into a retail store even as early as Nov. 1, you may well have thought that Christmas had already begun! Yet in our Catholic tradition, we take time before Christmas to prepare our hearts and minds, so that we may celebrate it more fully and fruitfully.
Father Christopher Vaccaro is not trying to be dramatic when he calls today’s college students a “lost generation” as far as religion goes.
As Catholics, we are called to grow continually in virtue throughout our lives. So much of our earthly existence relates to exercising virtue, so that, through God’s mercy and grace, we may grow closer to him and live with him forever in heaven. There is an essential Christian virtue that we rarely discuss as a virtue: gratitude.
BALTIMORE — Three days after he was pistol-whipped and robbed, the pastor of St. Leo the Church in Baltimore's Little Italy said he has been overwhelmed by support from his parish and the wider community as he heals from his injuries and takes time to come to terms with what happened.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis invited Italy's bishops to live the "beatitudes of a bishop," an adaptation of the traditional Eight Beatitudes to provide guiding principles for being a "good shepherd" of a diocese.
BERLIN — Some of the world's most iconic Christmas markets in Germany and Austria were forced to close shortly after or just before they opened, as COVID-19 infections surged across Europe.
WARSAW, Poland — A young Catholic priest has been beatified as a martyr in Poland, nearly eight decades after he was guillotined by wartime Nazi occupiers for clandestine charity work.
VATICAN CITY — With Advent coming during an ongoing pandemic, Christians are called to hold on to hope and foster a season of compassion and tenderness, Pope Francis said.
VATICAN CITY — Be confident in God like Mary and imitate her by listening and accepting his will, Pope Francis told members of the secular institute of the Missionary Oblate Cooperators of the Immaculate Conception.
