JT Olson (right) smiles alongside a widow and volunteers during a Both Hands service project.
Through Both Hands, volunteers serve widows and help families...
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Participants discuss a presentation at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society of Catholic Scientists at Mundelein Seminary in Illinois. ...
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Cardinal Michael Czerny is prefect of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
Cardinal Michael Czerny, whose...
Table of Contents: Things to Give Up for Lent When Ash Wednesday draws near, Catholics and other Christians seem to fall into two distinct groups when it comes to what to give up for Lent. The first...
Along with prayer and almsgiving, fasting is one of the three pillars of Lent. In a message for Lent in 2008, Pope Benedict XVI described these as “specific tasks that accompany the faithful...
Ash Wednesday 2026: The start of the Lenten season Lent comes providentially to reawaken us, to shake us from our lethargy. Pope Francis Table of Contents What is Ash Wednesday? In 2026, like in...
As tensions between the United States and Cuba intensify, the Vatican is showing greater attention to the situation, with one top official condemning a logic of confrontation and the use of...
Pope Leo XIV and the co-founder of artificial intelligence company Anthropic will launch the pontiff’s first encyclical on May 25, a document on the care of human dignity in the era of AI, the...