Forty years after St. John Paul II gathered leaders of the world’s religions in Assisi for a landmark day of prayer for peace, Pope Leo XIV will return to the city Oct. 27 for the closing day of the 2026 interreligious meeting.
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A new update from the excavation at Ireland’s former mother and baby home in Tuam is challenging years of widely circulated claims that children’s remains were “dumped” at the site, with investigators reporting that all 109 sets of remains recovered so far show evidence of having been buried in coffins.
The aim of World Mission Sunday (Oct. 18), established 100 years ago by Pope Pius XI, has “borne fruit in my own life,” Pope Leo XIV said.
Just days after Pope Leo XIV’s Sept. 25-28 apostolic visit to France, scenes of unrest have replaced the atmosphere of unity and peace that marked the papal trip.
Christians “cannot accept the oppression of the weak and the poor, nor the unjust structures that perpetuate conditions of dependence and injustice,” Pope Leo XIV said at his weekly general audience.
The encounter between Jesus and the Canaanite woman in the Gospel of Matthew (Mt. 15:21-28) is one of the most challenging and beautiful moments in the Gospel.
The annual Diocese of Dallas Bishop’s Invitational Golf Tournament raised more than $735,000 for tuition assistance at Catholic schools across the diocese, pushing the tournament’s 16-year fundraising total above $10 million.
The Vatican Publishing House will publish “The Private Diary of Pope Francis,” a book by Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, presenting and commenting on the late pope’s notes kept between 1992 and 2024.
On Oct. 18, the Church celebrates World Mission Sunday. This year’s theme is “One in Christ, united in mission.” Selected by Pope Leo XIV, the theme celebrates the communion of believers and the centennial of this global observance. It calls every member of the Church to grow closer to Christ and share more fully in his mission of love. Inspired by Christ’s prayer for unity before his passion, it also urges the Church toward renewed missionary zeal and continuing conversion.
A few weeks ago, several high schoolers from St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Parish did not know much about Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen.