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(RNS) — At the Last Supper, Jesus said, 'Do this in memory of me.' He did not say, 'Be celibate.'

Dear Friends: In my new Underground, I take a look at massive scandal that took last week in New York when the Abomination of Desolation stood in the...

BOOK PICK: ‘Mary and the Liturgical Year: A Pastoral Resource’ shows us how Mary points us to Jesus Christ and how Mary reminds us of who we are called to be...

Everything is presented as if the Church only begins with the Second Vatican Council. Until then – we are told – the Bible had been marginal, excluded...

One might criticize Pope Francis' statements about the war in Gaza, but they should not be confused with the question of the Catholic Church’s relationship with the Jewish people.

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he i...

null / Credit: Julia Metkalova/Shutterstock Denver, Colo., Feb 10, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). Sunday, Jan 28, was Septuagesima Sunday, followed by Sexagesima on Sunday, Feb. 4, and now Quinquagesima on Sunday, Feb. 11, is the last Sunday before Shr...

Sunday, Feb. 11, is the last Sunday before Shrovetide, which culminates in Shrove Tuesday — more popularly known as Mardi Gras.

The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments will hold its annual plenary assembly Feb. 6-9 at the Jesuit Curia in Rome.