4+ week, 2+ day ago   (636+ words) The Catholic Times The Church today celebrates the mystery of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in soul and body into Heaven. The spiritual mood is established in the Entrance Antiphon: “Let us all rejoice in the Lord, as…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1024+ words) A sign above Father Leo Connolly’s office has five letters, YCMIU. The acronym represents a saying that could describe much of his 45 years of priesthood: You Can’t Make It Up. The priest’s vocation took turns and led him down paths…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (482+ words) ROME (OSV News) — Pope Leo XIV met with Peruvian President José María Balcázar at the Vatican June 18 for a nearly two-hour discussion, after which the president revealed details of a possible papal trip to Peru in November. The papal visit…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (675+ words) ORLANDO, Fla. (OSV News) — The U.S. Catholic bishops approved several updates to their landmark document on protection policies for children and minors, seeking to define key terms while balancing care for victim-survivors with accused clergy’s right to a presumption of…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1246+ words) ORLANDO, Fla. (OSV News) — The second day of public sessions at the U.S. bishops’ spring plenary culminated with the much anticipated consecration of the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus during a late afternoon Mass June 11 at the…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (373+ words) Columbus Christ the King parish welcomed approximately 800 faithful from across the diocese for Mass on Friday, June 5 in anticipation of the U.S. consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Mass was the third in a Sacred Heart Novena of Masses…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (812+ words) MADRID (OSV News) — Madrid’s famous Bernabéu soccer stadium, normally packed with fans of the Real Madrid football club, roared with cheers and songs of praise to the Lord June 8 as 80,000 Catholics prayed together with Pope Leo XIV. “Behold the Church,…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (486+ words) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The rites and symbols of the liturgy are not arbitrary ceremonies but the means through which Catholics encounter God and are formed in faith, Pope Leo XIV said June 3. Continuing his series on the Second Vatican Council’s…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (236+ words) (OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV’s Angelus address given May 31, the feast of the Holy Trinity, at St. Peter’s Square. Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday! And now, with the prayer of the Angelus,…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (276+ words) VATICAN CITY (OSV News) — The following is the full text of Pope Leo XIV‘s Regina Caeli address given May 24, the feast of Pentecost, at St. Peter’s Square. Dear brothers and sisters, happy Sunday! On this Solemnity of Pentecost we…...