The remains of St. Peter may have been and possibly still could be buried in catacombs under the Mausoleum of St. Helena, according to a paper published recently by three Italian researchers.
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Study: Gen Z didn’t hear from faith leaders during the pandemic. But they didn’t lose their faith either.
Nine out of 10 young people say they didn’t hear from a religious leader during the pandemic. Yet roughly half said their faith stayed about the same in the crisis, just over a quarter that it had grown stronger.
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Prayer service held at Catholic cathedral to remember victims of Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921
The ecumenical prayer service was held at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa, which opened its doors 100 years ago to provide refuge for those fleeing one of the most severe incidents of racial violence in U.S. history.
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Canadian Catholic leaders express sorrow after bodies of over 200 Indigenous children discovered at residential school
Archbishop Miller was “filled with deep sadness” after the bodies of more than 200 children were found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s large Indigenous residential school.
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Pope Francis overhauls church’s criminal code to punish the sexual abuse of adults by priests
Amid the #MeToo movement and scandals of seminarians and nuns being sexually abused by their superiors, the Vatican has come to realize that adults can be victimized too if there is a power imbalance in the relationship.
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New species of owl named for American sister assassinated while fighting for the Amazon
Dubbed the Xingu screech owl, the little creature was given a scientific name of “Megascops stangiae” in honor of the late Sister Dorothy Stang, who was assassinated in 2005 in Anapu, Brazil, while fighting for the Amazon forest and its people.
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Pope Francis orders apostolic visitation of German diocese to investigate abuse crisis
Two envoys will work to get a “comprehensive picture of the complex pastoral situation in the archdiocese.”
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New poll: QAnon embraced by 11 percent of white Catholics and 15 percent of all Americans
According to a new P.R.R.I.-I.F.Y.C poll, 15 percent of U.S. adults—including 16 percent of Hispanic Catholics and 11 percent of white Catholics—agree with a core belief of the QAnon movement.
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Pope Francis kisses numbered tattoo of Auschwitz survivor
“The gesture by the Holy Father strengthened me and reconciled me with the world,” said Lidia Maksymowicz, 80, a Polish woman of Belorussian descent who survived the concentration camp as a child.
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Archbishop Gomez responds to unprecedented letter from 67 bishops asking for a delay on abortion and Communion document
The back-and-forth messages follow an increasingly public debate among the bishops about Catholic politicians who support keeping abortion legal and whether they should be denied access to the Eucharist.