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Sunday, June 1, is the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord (Boston; Hartford, Connecticut; New York; Newark, New Jersey; ...

James Talbot, a former Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting boys in Maine and Massachusetts after he was exposed ...

In Mark, the question Who is this man is answered not only through supernatural acts, but ultimately through sacrificial love ...

Pope Leo XIV is the first member of the Augustinian order to be elected pope. How the Augustinian influence shapes his ...

O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priests. Give them a deep faith, a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their ...

Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics.

Of all the great Christian feasts, none, with the exception of Easter and perhaps Christmas, has been and is more widely celebrated than Pentecost. The oldest of our festivals, just the ...

At a retreat during his sophomore year in high school in 2013, Deacon Randy Skeate realized the Lord had a unique plan for ...

A Jesuit priest, Pedro Porras was the first to research and document the Amazon rainforest’s Upano Valley culture dating back ...

The number of clergy with substantiated findings of sexual abuse in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas now stands at 29 ...