“A fast that will not make you hungry.” After praying the midday Angelus on February 28, Pope Francis expressed his hopes that everyone is having a “good journey” in Lent. The pope went on to make a recommendation for a Lenten fast: … a fast that will not make you hungry: a fast from gossip

The collection almost wound up in the trash, but now they could raise tens of thousands. Father John Ubel, rector of the Cathedral of St. Paul, is preparing to let go of a childhood treasure. The Minnesota priest plans to auction off a collection of rare baseball cards to raise money for his school’s tuition

Stress, isolation of pandemic leading people to reexamine faith life. Hardly anyone needs to be reminded of the situation, but Archbishop Ivan Jurkovič summed up the effects of COVID-19 when he spoke on Wednesday at the sixth Interfaith Dialogue 2021 in Geneva, Switzerland.  “Hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives, countless others are

After a year apart, their affectionate reunion is truly moving to witness! Since they met in the late 1950s, Stanley Harbour, 83, and his wife, Mavis, 81, had hardly spent a day apart. Then, late in 2019, Stanley, who was suffering from dementia, had to be admitted to the nearby Lever Edge Care Home, which

Kidnapped as a schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu is reportedly still alive. Her family and supporters are asking the world to call for her release. Leah Sharibu is a young Nigerian woman captured by the Islamic State of West Africa, a faction of the terrorist group Boko Haram, on  February 19, 2018. On the third anniversary of

Part of a team that opened the first integrated U.S. hospital, she also marched in Selma. A religious sister who served on a team that opened the first racially integrated hospital in the United States has died. Maryknoll Sister Madeline “Maddie” Dorsey passed away on February 13at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Maryknoll, New York. 

Grounded due to the coronavirus pandemic, pilgrims can follow in Jesus’ footsteps from their own homes. A highlight of any pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a walk down the cobblestone streets of the Via Dolorosa, following in Jesus’ footsteps as he made his way to the Cross. For the second successive Lenten season, pilgrimages

3 Things are forced to fade away in the desert, allowing it to become a privileged place of encounter with the Almighty. Run to the desert! Our heavenly Father reveals the glory of his beloved son at our Blessed Lord’s baptism by John, and then straight away Jesus is thrown into the contest of temptation

The Holy Father went to see the Hungarian poet in her home in Rome. Pope Francis paid an impromptu visit to Edith Bruck, an 88-year-old writer and survivor of the Holocaust, at her home in Rome, the director of the Holy See Press Office communicated on February 20. This Jewish novelist, of Hungarian origin, has