Mary's various appearances and conversations in the Gospels reveal that she was a very simple, young Jewish girl who, urged on by God's grace, was able to do extraordinary things.

Lucien Botovasoa was born in 1908, the first of nine children in his family in rural part of Madagascar. He was baptized into the Catholic faith at age ten and received his First Holy Communion at age ...

The Archdiocese of Boston designates its annual Ash Wednesday collection to support Catholic Charities. This year, your support is more crucial than ever.

The faithful throughout the Archdiocese of Boston, both clergy and laity, were praying for the health of Pope Francis as he ...

When Washington Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory became the first African American cardinal in the history of the Catholic Church Nov. 28, 2020, some of his thoughts were far from R ...

The annual New York Encounter opened on Valentine's Day evening with a love letter to Notre Dame Cathedral, presented by its restoration architect, Philippe Villeneuve. He has ...

A Kansas military chaplain who served during two wars is a step further along the path to possible sainthood, thanks to a declaration made by Pope Francis, currently in Rome's Gemelli ho ...

One is covered with autographs, the others are not, but the footballs all have the same words on them: "Father Jack." The game-used footballs take up plenty of space on a table in Jesuit Father John ...

Catholic bishops, clergy and religious across the nation continue to weigh in on the Trump administration's sweeping changes to U.S. immigration policy, stressing the need to respect hum ...

The jazz was hot, and the joint was jumping. On the night of Feb. 18, a standing-room-only audience crowded into a dark basement on a narrow side street of Boston's North End to hear wh ...

St. Katharine Drexel Parish in Dorchester, hub of the Archdiocese of Boston's Black Catholic community, hosted a Mass in honor of Black History Month on Feb. 23. The Mass was celebr ...

Vintage biblical epics sprout like daffodils during Lent, which begins with Ash Wednesday on March 5. But one of the most visible of those re-blooming buds over the years, Cecil B. DeMi ...