The Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has determined that “in the event of the transfer of a holy day of obligation, the obligation to attend Mass is not transferred.”

Clergy and religious continue to speak out against the Trump administration's sweeping changes to immigration policy as large-scale deportation operations ramp up.

On Jan. 25, Pope Francis said that the Catholic Church was open to accepting a common date for Easter “that everyone wants.” While the pope’s call may seem groundbreaking, it actually goes back to the Second Vatican Council.

The White House on Jan. 28 suggested it would seek to strip federal funds from nongovernmental organizations including Catholic Charities as part of its effort to enforce its immigration policies.

What might Aquinas himself have thought about all the attention to his traveling skull—that fragile and now empty case for the brain behind one of the most productive minds of European philosophy?