Explore religious figures shaping global events in 2025. From influential leaders to rising voices, this four-part series ...

In Fujian, the auxiliary bishop who quit in 2020 over joining government-controlled bodies, celebrated the anniversary of his ...

I had the great pleasure of participating in a grand welcome in the small central Kerala town of Changanassery for India’s ...

A bout of sciatic pain in the final days of 2020 keeps Pope Francis from presiding at the Vatican’s liturgies ... a cold right before Christmas. At Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica ...

It was 2020, and the university’s chancellor ... when clerics worldwide are at odds over how to respond to plummeting mass attendance in the developed world. Progressives argue the sanctimonious ...

He has managed to regain power despite his role in the attempted coup d'état after his defeat in 2020. Back in January 2017, Trump moved with an uncertain step, discovering the federal apparatus ...

Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels -- although just under one ...

The Vatican said Thursday that Pope Francis ... move around and has occasional problems with breathlessness. At Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24, 2024, he could be seen ...

Sunday Mass attendance in person at Catholic Churches in the U.S. is back to pre-pandemic levels – although just under one ...

When a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday and so is transferred to another day, the Catholic faithful are encouraged to ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Donald Trump might not be president yet, but world leaders have been preparing for his second term, including the head of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics, Pope Francis.

A nun will take over as head of the Vatican City State’s executive branch in March this ... Francis also spoke about mass deportation plans in the US, migration, the two-state solution, and the ...