Malachy Fallon, the first lay executive director of the Xavier Society for the Blind, “happened to be at the right place at the right time” when he began his...
In the Pews
Stories of real-life Catholics living out their faith, with reporting on parishes, ministries, and vocation.
Just hours after the election of Pope Leo XIV, media discourse was already making much of his Chicago roots, including discussing which sports teams he...
“The whiter it gets, the pope-ier I feel!” shouted Gabriel Carberry. Carberry, 27, who came from the Scottish Highlands to St. Peter’s Square to witness the...
This story will be updated regularly as more information becomes available The Catholic Church has a new pope: Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, O.S.A., 69, of...
In his homily on the morning of May 7, at the votive Mass of the Holy Spirit before the papal conclave began, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the...
In 2016, Lisa Campbell, a Pentecostal convert to Catholicism, began attending religious communities that celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass, sometimes...
The passing of Pope Francis this month marked the end of a transformative time in the church. His leadership drew both support and criticism from Catholics...
One curious restriction on who can serve as a godparent is that two persons of the same sex may not serve together. This wasn’t always a mandate. History is...
In 1531, the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego on a hill known as Tepeyac (now part of Mexico City), leaving her image on his cloak. At first, a bishop stored...
