With snow on the ground and possibly more on the way, Father Patrick Brady shows how to balance the obligation to attend Sunday Mass with deciding whether to drive, ride or walk to church – or stay ...

The Vatican “Sports Cross” arrived at the Basilica of San Babila in Milan on Thursday evening, one week ahead of the opening of the Feb. 6–22 Winter Olympic Games in Milan-Cortina, Italy. Since 2012, ...

A leaked document that was distributed to cardinals during Pope Leo XIV's first extraordinary consistory shows that any discussion of the liturgy would have been framed around the further application ...

Unlike the Traditional Latin Mass, which refers to the form of the Roman Rite prior to the reforms of Vatican II, ad orientem is a posture that can be used in the celebration of the post-conciliar ...

NCR readers respond to stories about Pope Leo and Vatican II, liturgical variety in the church and Vice President JD Vance's reaction to the killing of Renee Good.

Since starting his second presidential term a year ago, Trump’s policies and actions have drawn ire on multiple fronts, ...

At the heart of the matter is a local bishop’s authority to restrict or prohibit liturgical practices that are otherwise ...

Leo was elected amid widespread speculation on whether the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics would follow in the ...

Leo appealed to global leaders to remain vigilant against mass violence, urging them to ensure “that the horror of genocide ...

LATIN has been the official language of the Catholic Church. Papal documents are promulgated in Latin. Church documents, most ...

John L. Allen Jr. was a force of nature, certainly as a journalist who was not only our principal but also a model for us, ...

Q: I am a 14-year-old boy, and growing up I learned to serve the Mass. At first I never served with girls (my old church did ...