All day these monks work, pray and brew great beer.

Pope Francis will celebrate the Vatican’s traditional Christmas “Mass during the Night” at 7:30 p.m. so that the few people invited to attend can get home before Italy's 10 p.m. curfew.

While a visit from the pope will no doubt provide a spiritual and psychological boost to Nineveh Christians, under the current pandemic conditions it is a prospect that must give local public health officials pause.

Many members of the Catholic community who voted for Biden did so to promote racial, economic and environmental justice—not to undermine human life.

The massive “Guadalupana,” as the annual celebration of the Day of the Virgin of Guadalupe is commonly known, would be a potential public health catastrophe.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, Biden's choice to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has stirred the partisan fires Biden says he hopes to quell.

Scientific advances have allowed enormous breakthroughs in overcoming infertility—but not without some vexing ethical questions.

Pope Francis' remarks from his general audience on Wednesday, Dec. 9.

Marking the 150th anniversary of St. Joseph being declared patron of the universal church, Pope Francis proclaimed a yearlong celebration dedicated to the foster father of Jesus.

Pope Francis has held up the Congolese liturgy as a model for similarly inculturated rites in other parts of the Catholic world.