(These are excerpts from the archbishop’s 2025 Lenten message to the community.) As the Church opens the holy season of Lent on Ash Wednesday, our thoughts and prayers are with the Holy Father.

Pope Francis on Sunday expressed his gratitude for those who bring God’s love into the world through their dedicated service to those who are sick.

As Easter approaches on April 20, 2025, faithful Christians worldwide are using the holy season of Christ’s journey from sacrifice to resurrection to demand protection for vulnerable people around the ...

"Our Father." Father Vanni's little volume, which is a concise commentary on the Lord's Prayer, provides some new perspectives about this central prayer of the Christian's life. The version of the ...

Amid an ongoing financial crisis for the organization, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (PPGNY) is selling the property ...

As Pope Francis prepared to spend the 12th anniversary of his election at Rome's Gemelli hospital, people at the Vatican and ...

Q. My best friend from high school moved to town again and we’ve been hanging out more.

Colorado Buffalos head coach Deion Sanders faces a legal pressure from the Freedom From Religion Foundation for ...

The apostolic nuncio to Ukraine said that recent events regarding Ukraine have shown that the only true weapon that can bring ...

The fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria in December was viewed by the country’s minorities with a mixture of cautious optimism and apprehension. Just three months later, a wave of violence has made ...

Tensions in the south and former President Duterte’s trial are cause for concern. The country, the prelate writes, ...

Editor’s note: This article was first published in the Aug. 2, 1997, issue of America, titled "Praying the Psalms: Some Notes.” For some years I have been keeping rather extensive reading ...