Pilgrims gather in 2006 for an International Youth Festival outside the Church of St. James in Medjugorje. (Photo: Piotr Frydecki/Wikimedia Commons) Every Marian apparition places the Catholic ...

The file is suspended. The Catholic Church will not beatify Luisa Piccarreta, an Italian mystic known for her spiritual exercises centered on union with the will of God On January 24, Bishop ...

The October 2024 assembly marked the most female-inclusive synod in Church history. Around 50 women took part—and voted—in the second session of the Synod on Synodality. The right to vote at ...

Interview: Jean-Marc Lavergne, one of two French judges appointed by the United Nations to serve in the Khmer Rouge trials in Phnom Penh reflects on one of the 20th century’s greatest atrocities.

The moment the pope died, at … on …, the Catholic Church entered sede vacante — the period of vacancy in the Apostolic See, marking a time without a reigning ...

Once, September 20 was the occasion for popes to reminisce about the loss of the Papal States on that day in 1870. One century later, St. Paul VI put that issue to rest and made clear that the ...

The eighteenth century composition “The Council of Nicaea,” by F. Pavlovskyi, I. Maksimovych, and A. Galik and others. In Gate Church of the Trinity (Kyiv Monastery of the Caves). (Photo by H ...

La Croix: You followed the election of Pope Leo XIV from Villanova University, near Philadelphia, where you teach—and where the pope had studied mathematics and philosophy in the 1970s.

First Regina Coeli of Pope Leo XIV, Loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, May 11, 2025. (Photo by picture alliance / Stefano Spaziani/Newscom/MaxPPP) U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian ...

Above the entrance of the palace of the Ecclesiastical Academy (16th century). Piazza della Minerva, Rome, Italy. (Photo: Jastrow/Wikimedia Commons) In a chirograph signed in late March, Pope ...

For former Trappist abbot André Louf, experiencing failure allows one to access their innermost reality. (Image by Kristelle Rodeia for La Croix) While the spiritual life has often been presented ...

Despite the First Council of Nicaea in 325, which condemned Arianism and affirmed Christ’s divinity, many continued to deny that Jesus was truly God. A few decades later, the divinity of the ...