The dialogue sparked by the 1965 Vatican document reached new lows after October 7. Now that fighting might be over, optimism ...

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day morning, Dec. 25 — a custom dating to the pontificate of St. John Paul II. The Vatican announced Tuesday Pope Leo’s Mass ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of Gaza ...

Father Gabriel Romanelli, Latin parish priest of Gaza Strip, left, prays during the midnight Christmas Eve mass at Deir Al Latin Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City, Dec. 24, 2021. (Credit: Adel ...

Catholic worshippers attend a New Year’s Eve Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City in 2016. (Artem Vorobiev/Getty Images) How we did this Pew Research Center conducted this survey to better ...

THAT WAS OUR PETER ILIOPOULOS REPORTING. NOW WE HEAD TO WINCHENDON, WHERE A RAGING HOUSE FIRE DESTROYED A HOME ON CHRISTMAS EVE. YOU CAN SEE THE FLAMES THERE SHOOTING FROM THE BUILDING. THIS WAS ON ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The cheer that typically descends on the ...

During his first Christmas in Boston, Archbishop Richard G. Henning visited programs helping those in need and celebrated Mass with local parishioners displaced from their church. The archbishop began ...

Rev. John Ahern, who served his Catholic faith as a Central New York parish priest and pastor, and celebrated his Irish heritage as a founder of the Syracuse St. Patrick’s Parade, died Dec. 28. He was ...