By Asami Ohmoto In a quiet parish in Tokyo archdiocese, eight-year-old Minami Kimura’s decision surprised almost everyone, including her parents — she wanted to be baptized as a Catholic. Minami, a ...

You probably have heard before that we humans can live without food for 30 to 40 days, maybe even longer, but we cannot live without some form of water intake for more than about three days. In ...

Elder Clark G. Gilbert of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Christine Gilbert, joined the Church News ...

Young Americans have been turning away from religion in recent years. But North Point Community Church in Atlanta draws thousands of enthusiastic Gen Zers each week — in part because it embraces ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson's life and legacy were celebrated at an emotional funeral service in Columbia, South Carolina.

On Feb. 14, 2026, the Daughters of St. Paul in Jamaica Plain celebrated the first profession of vows of novice Catherine Addington. The Mass was celebrated at the chapel at the Daughters' convent ...

The London archdioceses of Westminster and Southwark record their highest number of adults entering the Church at Easter ...

It is the discipline of a community that has resolved not to rush human life past its own dignity. When such practices erode, ...

Ever since the Fall in the Garden of Eden, we were born to die (Adam and Eve chose death for all their descendants). But because of Jesus’ Sacrifice, because we live A.D., death is no longer the same.

On Feb. 22, Washington Cardinal Robert W. McElroy celebrated the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion, the Lenten liturgy marking the final stage of preparation for those who will ...

February is St Matthias’s Day. Matthias is known as “the 13th apostle”, but who was he and what do we know about him? This is ...

Streets, buildings and even church faces felt alien. Life felt fragmented, and then the BEC there found me. Or perhaps I found them. They did not ask many questions. They simply included me in meals, ...