A new film explores Robert Prevost's journey from young Augustinian seminarian to Pope Leo XIV, offering rare glimpses of his formation.
Today's Mass readings show God rebuilding ruins and Christ bringing new wine that cannot fit old wineskins.
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Saints St. Elizabeth of Portugal turned roses into instruments of peace and survived a difficult marriage through prayer and charity.
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Church The former slave and philanthropist rests in St. Patrick's Cathedral crypt with archbishops, the only layperson honored there.
News Pope Leo XIV's monthly prayer intention for July focuses on defending human life from conception to natural death.
News Young adults are fixating on death and grief. St. Paul and Jesus both addressed this human tendency two thousand years ago.
Saints July 3 is the feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, patron of architects, who touched Christ's wounds and proclaimed 'My Lord and…
Mass Readings Today's Mass readings unite Thomas's doubt with Paul's vision of the Church as God's temple, built on the apostles' witness.
Prayer Pray the Veni Creator Spiritus, a 9th-century Latin hymn invoking the Holy Spirit. Full text, attribution, and reflection for today.
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