1+ hour, 41+ min ago  (764+ words) Other Commemorations: St. Hugh of Cluny, Abbot (RM); Other Titles: St. Catharine of Siena April 29, 2026 (Readings on USCCB website) Mass Propers for the Memorial of St. Catherine of Siena: Entrance Antiphon: Here is a wise virgin, from among the number…...

22+ hour, 37+ min ago  (274+ words) In a letter dated April 24 and released today, Pope Leo XIV granted ecclesiastical communion to Paul III Nona, who was elected Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church on April 12. "With a heart filled with joy," wrote Pope Leo, "I grant…...

20+ hour, 37+ min ago  (276+ words) A chief provider and curator of Catholic information on the web since 1996. Our editorial voice, always faithful to the teachings of the Church, assists and inspires Catholic clergy and laity. Faithful Catholic resources depend on your faithful 5 beatification causes advance,…...

21+ hour, 36+ min ago  (259+ words) Bishop Georg B'tzing of Limburg, the former chairman of the German bishops" conference, and Irme Stetter-Karp, president of the lay Central Committee of German Catholics, defended the blessing of same-sex couples and of couples who remarried outside the Church, after…...

21+ hour, 37+ min ago  (405+ words) Following an investigation, Bishop Joseph Bonnemain of Chur, Switzerland, ruled that three dog owners who shared the Blessed Sacrament with their pets did not incur an automatic excommunication because they did not act with sacrilegious intent. Canon 1382 provides that "one…...

22+ hour, 37+ min ago  (182+ words) " Continue to this story on Catholic Herald CWN Editor's Note: At the consecration of a bishop of the Episcopal Church, a Catholic bishop performed a "gesture that some commentators have interpreted as active participation in a non-Catholic ordination ceremony," The…...

20+ hour, 37+ min ago  (167+ words) The vicar apostolic of Savannakhet, Laos, ordained two Redemptorists to the priesthood on April 22 in Thakhek, a city of 90, 000. Twenty priests minister to 53, 000 Catholics in Laos. The Southeast Asian nation of 8. 1 million (map), a Communist state, is 54% Buddhist and 3% Christian,…...

21+ hour, 37+ min ago  (250+ words) Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, and Bishop David Bonnar of Youngstown, Ohio, joined the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in condemning the White House Correspondents" dinner shooting. "I"m grateful that the president and his…...

20+ hour, 37+ min ago  (263+ words) At the blessing of the foundation stone of the Pope Francis Heart Center at Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, Pope Leo XIV recalled Dilexit Nos, Pope Francis's 2024 encyclical on the human and divine love of the Heart of Jesus Christ....

20+ hour, 37+ min ago  (563+ words) In his first visit to the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, which trains Vatican diplomats, Pope Leo XIV outlined "some characteristics of the Pontifical Diplomatic Priest who, by participating in the ministry of the Successor of Peter, embraces and cultivates a special…...