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Mardi Gras (“Fat Tuesday”) is the day before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent.

The pastoral is “about the qualities of mind and heart that we as citizens, believers and leaders ought to be striving to bring to our political culture,”

Thanks to a 17th-century Italian priest, skis made their way from their origin in Scandinavia to Central Europe.

As the nation marks the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution this year, this series will examine the origins of the church and Catholic life in each of the 50 …

This year has been extraordinary not just because of the papal transition, but because of the election of Pope Leo XIV himself.

One year after the reopening of Notre Dame de Paris, Marseille’s Basilica of Notre Dame de la Garde is preparing to celebrate the completion of restoration work on the iconic …

On the feast of All Souls, Catholics in Chicago joined in commemorating the great famine in Ireland that left more than 1 million people dead and began the mass exodus …

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — The National Park Service announced Aug. 4 that it will restore and reinstall a statue of a senior Confederate officer in the nation’s capital that was toppled …

St. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, is the patron saint of mothers, women in difficult marriages and alcoholics.

“This right here is bringing us peace. We’re having prayer. People are coming by having prayer. The community is talking.”