Pope Francis meets with comedians at the Apostolic Palace on June 14, 2024, in Vatican City. Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Image When Pope Francis addressed a group of top international ...

Bishop Thomas G. Doran of the Rockford (Illinois) Diocese writes that the seven secular sacraments are “abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminism of the radical type, and genetic ...

After a journalist reported on Pope Francis’ surprise visit to a record store, the pope surprised him back — by writing him a letter. Javier Martínez-Brocal, director of the Rome-based news agency ...

Catholic Twitter is using juxtaposed images of two Olympics shooters to humorously draw distinctions between everything from priests and seminarians to the styles of different Gospel authors. One of ...

For the Most Recent in 'The Best in Catholic Blogging' click on ☩ Big Pulpit ☩. Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope ...

Pope Francis is the head of the Roman Catholic Church and the bishop of Rome. Update: Pope Francis died on April 21, 2025. This article was originally published in December 2024. Life inevitably has ...

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional. As Christians on campus prepare to observe Lent — a period of fasting and prayer ahead of Easter — one tired senior has a very special ...

Directed by Omar Vicente Fernández, the girls in this new play by María Arreol are restless with their respective secrets.

President Donald Trump joked with reporters on April 29 that he would like to be the next pope following Pope Francis' death. "I would like to be pope. That would be my No. 1 choice," Trump said ...

(The Conversation) — When Pope Francis addressed a group of top international comedians on June 14, 2024, he called them “artists” and stressed the value of their talents. To many Catholics, this ...