Today, sacred music has transcended church walls. Hymns like And My Heart Is Happy Again by Father Thành Tâm or Prayer of ...

As a practising Catholic, I was raised to revere the Mass as the highest form of worship -- a sacred moment in which heaven touches earth and the faithful encounter the divine. Over the years, my ...

Pope Leo XIV picks up where Pope Francis left off, and embraces a new Mass focused on the environment, care for the Earth and climate change.

Instead of seeing the Latin Mass as a source of vitality in the Church, Francis denounces it as a rallying point of dissent. The celebration of the old rite, he argued in a letter to bishops that ...

Pope Leo XIV formally becomes leader of the Catholic Church in inaugural Mass. Vice President JD Vance watched as Pope Leo XIV formally assumed his role as the leader of the Catholic Church St ...

The Mass formulary begins with the entrance antiphon from Psalm 19: "The heavens declare the glory of God; the firmament proclaims works of his hands." The Collect prayer, which gathers the prayer ...

Hong Kong’s Catholic church has declined to say if it will hold a mass this year to commemorate victims of the Tiananmen crackdown, after scrapping the event in the past three years. When asked ...

A Catholic church in Queens was engulfed in flames less than 24 hours before worshippers were set to gather for Easter Sunday mass. The fire broke out at Saint Edmund Church of the Holy Trinity ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — A special mass was held at the newly-renovated St. Joseph Catholic Church in downtown St. Joseph Thursday. Bishop Edward M. Lohse, of the Kalamazoo Diocese, blessed the more ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, warning of the dangers caused by a lack of faith and hoping the Catholic Church could ...

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons. But he upheld it in other areas, such as abortion and celibacy for priests.

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first American pope offered a message of healing during an inaugural Mass in ...