7+ hour, 10+ min ago  (457+ words) The Holy Father carried the cross at the Roman amphitheater on Good Friday, the first time a pope has done so in several years. Pope Leo XIV urged the faithful to "live our lives as a journey" and prayed for…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago  (261+ words) Pope Leo XIV urged the faithful to "live our lives as a journey" and prayed for the Church to "follow in the footprints" of Christ as he walked the Via Crucis on April 3. The Pope personally carried the cross through…...

13+ hour, 55+ min ago  (837+ words) The Catholic revival that Paris has been experiencing over the past five years continues unabated, even amid the city's long-running status as a symbol of European secularization. On the night of the Easter vigil, April 4, more than 700 adults across the…...

12+ hour, 11+ min ago  (874+ words) VATICAN " Pope Leo XIV presided over the Celebration of the Lord's Passion in St. Peter's Basilica on Good Friday during which the preacher of the papal household exhorted Christians to "approach the Lord's cross without fear." The liturgy began with…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1730+ words) Faith, history and science converge on one of Christianity's oldest questions surrounding the Crucifixion. A father once gave his 8-year-old daughter a book titled Great Men of History. As she flipped through its pages, she noticed something peculiar: Every figure,…...

12+ hour, 25+ min ago  (457+ words) BOOK EXCERPT: "I realized I could never look upon a crucifix the same way again." Editor"s Note: The following are excerpts from God"s Wounds: The Remarkable Truth of Those Who Bore the Signs of Christ"s Passion (Catholic…...

14+ hour, 42+ min ago  (577+ words) On Holy Thursday night, the Eternal City was alight with candlelit altars housing the Blessed Sacrament. ROME " Hundreds of pilgrims in Rome visited churches to pray before special side altars containing the Blessed Sacrament, called altars of repose, on Holy…...

16+ hour, 16+ min ago  (637+ words) Without a clear rule of life, we drift from what matters most; with one, we can order our days toward faith and flourishing. As Lebanese-American writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb notes, "A man without a heroic bent starts dying." We were…...

22+ hour, 55+ min ago  (450+ words) Editor's note: Father Raymond J. de Souza recorded meditations on the Seven Last Words at St. Mary's Cathedral in Ogdensburg, New York. They will air on EWTN on Good Friday at 1 p.m. (EDT). It will also be available at ewtn.com and…...

23+ hour, 25+ min ago  (1007+ words) COMMENTARY: On Good Friday, the "terrible abyss" comes into focus: the freedom that leads some to grace and others to betrayal. Canadian-German psychiatrist Karl Stern recounts, in his conversion story, The Pillar of Fire, a chance meeting he had with…...