ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of ...

A new rite published by the Vatican on Thursday will allow priests to celebrate a Mass to exhort Catholics to exercise care ...

The Mass indicated a strong line of ecological continuity with Pope Francis, who made environmental protection a hallmark of ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate is getting under way ...

The new Mass, Pro Custodia Creationis (For the Care of Creation), was initially ordered by Pope Francis, who made the ...

In regard to the words given us by the Church for the Liturgy, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Benedict XVI), wrote in The Spirit of the Liturgy (p. 165f), “Unspontaneity is of their essence.

Is compromise possible that can respect both unity and diversity in the church? After the Second Vatican Council, the liturgy was translated from Latin into the vernacular so ordinary people could ...

Active participation in Liturgy is much deeper than merely external actions. To allow the Lord truly to transform us, we must prayerfully surrender to His grace, and be ready to make a gift of self.

In an intensely spiritual moment, Jackie Webb leaned over and kissed the image of Christ crucified Tuesday evening in the ...

State media says a suicide bomber in Syria has detonated himself inside a church filled with people, killing at least 20. The explosion in Dweil’a in the outskirts of Damascus ...

The Syro-Malabar Church’s synod mandated the use of the uniform rite in August 2021, requiring its implementation of all its 35 dioceses in India and across the world.