France’s bishops used their Nov. 3-5 plenary assembly in Lourdes to confront the country’s deepening education crisis, as strikes, school blockades, and political battles over funding have pushed the issue to the forefront of public debate.
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Pope Leo XIV traveled to Córdoba in central Argentina, where he recalled the example of Argentina’s saints — who spread the Gospel and tirelessly served peoples in a rugged frontier — while emphasizing the enduring importance of missions.
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass with 2.5 million people in the heart of Buenos Aires on Nov. 9, drawing the largest crowd of his pontificate so far.
As Kraków mourned the victims of a mass shooting Nov. 7 that left six people dead in the city’s historic Main Market Square, Cardinal Grzegorz Rys urged residents not to surrender to fear and hatred, delivering a powerful homily Nov. 8 on suffering, faith, and the hope that death does not have the final word.
Twenty-four men representing 18 parishes in the Diocese of Dallas took an important step in their journey toward the permanent diaconate Oct. 24 during the celebration of a Rite of Admission to Candidacy for Holy Orders by Bishop Edward J. Burns at St. Patrick Catholic Church.
In today’s Gospel, Jesus is confronted with a question intended to trap him: Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar?
Mim Scholle was reading an advertisement for a parish women’s group one day when she noticed something strange.
Pope Leo XIV departed Rome for Uruguay on the morning of Nov. 6 at the start of a 12-day trip to South America, the longest international journey of his pontificate, a little over three weeks after undergoing surgery for lung cancer.
Violence bookended both the beginning and end of Blessed Stanley Rother’s 46 years of life: Born in 1935 — during the fury of a Great Depression-era Oklahoma dust storm — the missionary pastor died in 1981, shot by masked assailants in the midst of Guatemala’s almost four-decade civil war.
Pope Leo XIV released his prayer intention for the month of November inviting Catholics to pray “for the proper use of wealth” and recognize that true wealth lies not in accumulating or possessing but in giving with love.