On Good Friday Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal household, said the COVID-19 coronavirus ought to be a turning point to end wars and fuel solidarity, and that the biggest...
Meditations for Pope Francis's "Via Crucis" ceremony on Good Friday were written by prisoners and their families, as well as crime victims and their families.
ROME – Celebrating one of the most unusual Holy Thursday Masses of all time, which took place in a nearly empty St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis remembered priests living and dead amid the...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul Haring By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Calling the Shroud of Turin an "icon of the Lord Jesus crucified, died and risen," Pope Francis thanked the archbishop of Turin for deciding...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By This is one of a series of pastoral and personal reflections on living in this time of pandemic. It was written by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, New York, as...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Chaz Muth By WASHINGTON (CNS) -- As the coronavirus persists in the United States, the number of Masses, Stations of the Cross, meditations and other devotions being livestreamed by...
By Father Raymond J. de Souza | Introduction | First Word | Second Word | Third Word Fourth Word | Fifth Word | Sixth Word | Seventh Word And when the sixth hour had come, there was...
By K.V. Turley | In April 1957, a French criminal, Jacques Fesch, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. Fesch’s period of confinement before his execution was to prove a moment of grace...
By Thomas Craughwell | Of Christ’s eleven surviving apostles and who-knows-how-many disciples and followers, only a tiny handful had the courage to stand at the foot of his cross. There was the...