The Poor Clares have been part of the Catholic Diocese of Belleville since 1986, when they branched out from a monastery in ...

On the night of March 12-13, 2013, just hours before Cardinal Jorge Bergolio would be elected pope, young adults were ...

In 2025, the penance service will be celebrated at the Basilica ... Members of the San Lorenzo youth center hold a banner in ...

Next week begins the Week called Holy, with Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord on April 13 and concluding with Easter Sunday on April 20. Toward the end ...

Pope Francis has called confessors participating in an annual course in the Vatican “ministers of mercy” and urged them to ...

St. Francesco (Francis) Antonio Fasani was born as Giovanneillo ... stirring his listeners and moving them to do penance." Francesco showed himself a loyal friend of the poor, never hesitating ...

I'm hoping that a softer approach to these 40 days will help prepare me for the more difficult ones I know are coming.

Image People participating in a rosary prayer in St. Peter’s Square in February.Credit...James Hill for The New York Times Francis remained ... a year of faith, penance and forgiveness of ...

Theodore E. McCarrick — the former archbishop of Washington and the highest American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church to ...

The disgraced former cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, removed from the clerical state in 2019 after revelations of credible ...