This year marks the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi's composition of the 'Canticle of the Creatures.' It's time we look harder at the radical theological vision of creation it contains.

Pope Leo XIV asked people to fast on Friday to pray for peace and justice in the Middle East and Ukraine, issuing a special ...

Six pro-life activists, a majority of them Catholics including two recently pardoned by President Donald Trump, are now ...

This year the mission of Holy Trinity Parish in Washington to "accompany one another in Christ" took on a new focus and a new ...

George Cassidy Payne is a freelance journalist and poet based in Rochester, New York, specializing in politics, culture and ...

In October 1968, a top story in the National Catholic Reporter was the trial and conviction of the Catonsville Nine. Revisit ...

On Aug. 18, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the leaders of several European countries came to the White House for ...

Pope Leo XIV turns 70 on Sept. 14 and some of his closest friends in the Chicago-area will mark the day with him in mind, ...

Pope Leo XIV paid a private visit to the Shrine of Our Lady of Grace of Mentorella, high in the Monti Prenestini mountain ...

Compare the dystopian episode unfolding in D.C. today with a day in the same city in 2015, when Pope Francis had lunch with ...

The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference took turns with dozens of other members of his diocese reading the names and ages ...

The Clinton administration once used Matthew Morrison's U.S. immigration case to help solidify peace in Northern Ireland.