In these early weeks of “ordinary” time, we are being introduced to Jesus and the beginning of his public ministry. Matthew’s ...

A Catholic priest is lucky to have his job after bizarrely telling his congregation in the UK that the son of God died with an erection. Father Thomas McHale, an American, was subject to an ...

This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled "Deus in Machina ...

Sometimes it’s easy to think there are two kinds of Christians: Those who emphasize worship and piety and those who focus on living out their faith in the world. But in this column, continuing our ...

Speaking to a group of pilgrims from Rome at the Franciscan headquarters in the Old City of Jerusalem on Jan. 7, Franciscan Father Francesco Ielpo, custos of the Holy Land, called pilgrims back to the ...

This Easter season the U.S. bishops are inviting old and new Catholics to discover the truth, beauty, and goodness of the Mass through a brand-new reflection series releasing every Thursday from ...

Filipino Catholics gathered Sunday afternoon, Jan. 11, for a lively, colorful community tradition. The prayerful event at Christ the Redeemer Catholic Church in Grand Terrace was for the Feast of the ...

A new study has found that 69% of Mass-going Catholics believe in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist — a result that calls into question the accuracy of a bombshell 2019 study from Pew ...

Pope Leo XIV said that God is revealed through Jesus' humanity, not solely through a "channel of transmission of intellectual truths." ...

Luis Alberto Hernández had no words to describe his feelings after having personified Jesús in the Vía Crucis at Saint Anthony Mary Claret Catholic Church on Good Friday. Dressed as Jesús, Hernández ...

John Dear, the noted peace activist familiar to longtime readers of the National Catholic Reporter, has a new podcast, "The Nonviolent Jesus." It launches today and can be found here. Dear is the ...