Pope Leo XIV has summoned the world's cardinals for two days of meetings to help him govern the church, in the clearest sign yet that the new year will signal the unofficial start of his pontificate.

The consistory, as such gatherings are called, will be held Jan. 7-8, immediately following the Jan. 6 conclusion of the 2025 ...

Doors and hearts will open this week, with celebrations across Hancock County of a baby born more than 2,000 years ago.

On a Gaudete Sunday blizzard at St. Patrick’s, a blind priest and the Xavier Society reveal a clearer kind of sight: faith ...

Saturday Live Nativity: with live actors and animals from 5 to 8 p.m. at Christ Church North Bay at 6965 Redwood Blvd. in Novato. Go to ccnb.org. Monday Nativity prefeast: presented by St. Nicholas ...

St. Thomas More Church: 8501 Calumet Ave. — The annual St. Thomas More Lessons and Carols program is set for 6-8 p.m. on Dec. 21. Nine lessons from Scripture are followed by carols to tell the human ...

The Sunday worship service starts at 10 a.m. The Rev. Amy Beth Durward de Macias will present the sermon. Also, there will be Christmas Eve candlelight services at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday. Both ...

From St. Patrick’s Cathedral to the White House to Fox News, he comfortably inhabited many spheres of influence.

Friday Movie Matinee: “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Join us at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19 in the reading room of the Osterhout Free Library, 71 South Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre, for a free showing of this ...

The Italian priest Father Raffaele Grimaldi, who left his chaplaincy at the Secondigliano prison in Naples — where he served ...

The second annual diocesan Simbang Gabi drew an overflow crowd Sunday evening (Dec. 14) at St. Paul Church in Phoenix, as ...

At the conclusion of the Mass, those present were given a prayer card with a prayer to ask the Lord for the intercession of ...