Pope Francis, 88, died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, and Massachusetts residents met this death with mixed emotions.

Royal families across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East have released tributes and official statements following the death of ...

Francis’s liberal views on LGBTQ people in the church and women potentially serving as ordained deacons — something he was willing to discuss but never approved — could spark a retrenchment.

That has not been rescinded over the centuries. According to the Catechism (2447): The [corporal and spiritual] works of mercy are charitable actions by which we come to the aid of our neighbor in ...

For those unfamiliar with Islam, Ramadan is a time of mercy, fasting and forgiveness, a spiritual period of devotion ... Carolina in 2003 and currently works as a professor.

The Catholic Church has, especially since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, taught the importance of the common spiritual heritage ... Popular works published in recent years such as ...

A. The chief means by which we satisfy God for the temporal punishment due to sin are: Prayer, Fasting, Almsgiving; all spiritual and corporal works of mercy, and the patient suffering of the ills ...

You have to draw close to hear the words, for a crucified man struggles to speak, his lungs crushed under the pressure of his own weight, even as his body screams to him in pain.

TODAY the Church honours St Damien of Molokai, a selfless priest who served those with Hansen’s disease or leprosy in Hawaii. The Belgian priest sacrificed his life and health to become a spiritual ...

That first appeared in a parody of the Catholic catechism’s Works of Mercy: “Th’ newspaper ... Mr Dooley’s spiritual home remains Chicago, however. And despite the brogue, according ...