Lent calls for a return to the basics. On Ash Wednesday, for instance, we are exhorted to give alms, to pray, to fast (Mt 6:1 ...

Two days in early February, one beautiful and one tragic, forced me to think deeply on the meaning and nature of compassion.

Supporters of the traditional Latin Mass have urged Catholics not to confuse their movement with the more controversial ...

A Harvard University academic whose work focuses on human flourishing told OSV News he is "honored and humbled" over his appointment by Pope Leo XIV to a Vatican research group. Tyler J. VanderWeele, ...

Italian figure skater Daniel Grassl performs during the Men's Single Skating short program during the Milan Cortina 2026 ...

A deadly shooting erupted during a boys hockey game in Rhode Island, involving a co-op with a number of players reported to be from an area Catholic school, and may have been motivated b ...

When Maureen Heil heard the news that Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen would be beatified, she jumped out of her seat and ...

Q: Why are there so many different kinds of convents out there? I don't understand why a young woman who feels called to give ...

OR Mt 5:20-22a, 27-28, 33-34a, 37 In a sense, it's all been leading to this. During these weeks of Ordinary Time, the Gospel ...

The history of the Church in the United States is a chronicle of evangelization. Most of the Americans in the eternal hall of ...

Last year, our Pontifical Mission Societies supported the growth of the Church in Nigeria by building churches, funding ...

The ancient practice of fasting from food during Lent can free us from complacency and lead us to "hunger" for God, Pope Leo XIV said in his 2026 Lenten message. Ahead of Ash Wednesday, which marks ...