Ten years after his installation on the feast of Our Lady of Fátima, the archbishop is releasing his newest pastoral letter, titled “Only One Thing Is Necessary,” to families.
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In early 2024, Florida residents watching local TV news learned that a bishop in Haiti had been airlifted to a local hospital, where he would be treated for serious burns following a fiery explosion near the Haitian capital.
Pope Leo XIV has appointed Father Emilio Biosca Agüero, a Capuchin Franciscan missionary who served in Cuba and Papua New Guinea, as the new bishop of Venice, Florida.
Pope Leo XIV’s brother Augustinians and others from the Chicago-area looked back with gratitude on the past year since the election of one of their own at a special Mass May 8.
A Texas-based bishop, who leads one of the Catholic Church’s three “Anglican ordinariates,” has seen his pastoral care expanded to Australia, as a fellow prelate has been tapped to lead a Vatican dicastery.
For some of the people in the pews at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the visit of 36 relics belonging to martyrs from Mexico’s Cristero War was about more than history.
Bishop John P. Dolan of Phoenix still remembers when clergy and, in particular, a religious sister walked with him after his brother died by suicide.
The first publicly recognized Black Catholic priest in the United States — who has already had 40 potential miracles through his intercession investigated — is now getting his own national shrine in western Illinois where he grew up and once served.
One year in, Pope Leo XIV’s papacy has been rooted in truth, unity, and love — the distinct gifts of his religious order, the Order of St. Augustine — making him a shepherd who leads with a blend of bridge-building and truth-telling, according to those who know him well and from afar.
The priest who created Rice Bowl — which became Catholic Relief Services’ annual Lenten program of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving for humanitarian aid — has died at age 95.