Since its founding in 1881 in Spain, the Hospitaller Sisters have been a refuge of tenderness for the world’s outcasts, ...

Carrying the cross means stepping into the pain of others and walking beside them, Pope Francis wrote at the start of Holy ...

A sombre silence fell over the crowded pews of St. Michael’s Cathedral Basilica in downtown Toronto this afternoon, as ...

Urbi et orbi” means “To the city [of Rome] and to the world.” It is a special apostolic blessing given by the pope every year ...

The further we get from the needs and the lives of the poor, the easier it is to forget that we have duties to them at all.

Catholics regularly take children who are young or sick to the Vatican to receive a blessing from the pope. A nine-day mourning period will now begin in Francis' honour, with his funeral in ...

Pope Francis Sunday made his first public appearance since leaving the hospital two weeks ago, coming into St. Peter’s Square ...

Pope Francis, still recovering from respiratory infections, made only a brief appearance in the square at the end of Palm ...

Marlene Watkins, author of ‘Everyday Miracles of Lourdes’ (EWTN Publishing), recounts the life of St. Bernadette Soubirous, whose sanctity lay not in grand gestures but in prayer, suffering and ...

Just hours before his passing, Pope Francis shared a deeply meaningful message on Easter Day, reminding the world of the ...

Pope Francis made a surprise appearance in St. Peter’s Square on the Jubilee of the Sick, sharing profound reflections on suffering, care, and the transformative power of illness. Wearing nasal ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died on Monday. He was 88, and had suffered a ...