The pope told the seminarians that the call of God is gratuitous and not based on any merit of theirs, adding that their presence is a sign of hope for the Church in that God continues to call. --- On Sept. [...]

Preparations for Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lourdes are in full swing. Registration has been capped to ensure adequate services for those in attendance. [...] --- Preparations for Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lourdes are in full swing. Registration has been [...]

Preparations for Pope Leo XIV’s visit to Lourdes are in full swing. Registration has been capped to ensure adequate services for those in attendance. --- The Lourdes Shrine in France has confirmed that 150,000 of the faithful will be in attendance [...]

The short answer is that a lot of young people are genuinely coming home to the Church. You can see it in conversion stories, campus ministries, young-adult communities, and packed Eucharistic adoration nights. Recent data from the prayer app Hallow [...]

Joe Schmid ran a highly popular agnostic YouTube channel for years, but “a gift of God’s grace” has led him back to the faith. --- “Big news. God exists. Christ is Lord, and he established the Catholic Church.” That’s how Joe [...]

The general audience catechesis focused on Gaudium et Spes, Vatican II’s pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world. [...] --- The general audience catechesis focused on Gaudium et Spes, Vatican II’s pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern [...]

Bucking modern architecture and building conventions, the Fairfield Carmelites have opted to build their monastery using old-world methods including traditional stonemasonry and timber framing.     The post Carmelite sisters building a monastery to ‘last a thousand years’ in Pennsylvania [...]

In T.S. Eliot: An Imperfect Life, Lyndall Gordon plunders the various works of her subject to show how suffused they are with the travails of the life, especially the life’s The post T.S. Eliot’s complete simplicity appeared first on The [...]

Cardinal Robert Sarah spoke out against restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass, prompting Pope Francis biographer Austen Ivereigh to accuse him of attacking the papacy. --- Cardinal Robert Sarah spoke out against restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass, prompting Pope Francis [...]

Bishop Paolo Liu Honggang is the third bishop ordained in China in three months and the sixth episcopal consecration during Leo’s pontificate amid implementation of the Vatican-Beijing agreement. --- Father Paolo Liu Honggang was ordained bishop of the Diocese of Datong [...]