Polish actor Marcin Kwasny portrays Polish Conventual Franciscan Father Maximilian Kolbe in the death starvation cell at the Nazis’ main Auschwitz concentration camp, where he died Aug. 14, 1941. The ...

From left to right, Tom Neeley, Hannah Byrd and Gene C. Lin were among workers who lost their jobs earlier this year who participated in support groups at Holy Trinity Parish in Washington, D.C., that ...

The facilitator of the job loss support group at Holy Trinity Parish in Washington, D.C., is Dr. Marie J. Raber, the former dean and director of the Master of Social Work Program at the National ...

Scripture Reflection for the 20 Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 Psalm 40:2, 3, 4, 18 Hebrews 12:1-4 Luke 12:49-53 Wait. Did Jesus really say that? The Gospel we hear this weekend ...

At the beginning of a Peace Memorial Mass at Urakami Cathedral in Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 2025, on the day of the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of that city, Archbishop Peter ...

Takashi Nagai was a medical doctor and atomic bomb survivor. But it was his radical conversion to Christ that started a new chapter in the life of a man who – thanks to his faith and medical genius – ...

As the world marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Catholic Church must renew its commitment to nonviolence, disarmament and lasting peace, said U.S.

(The Maryland Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the Catholic bishops of Maryland, issued the following statement on August 6, 2025.) Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called ...

Addressing an estimated 1 million young people, Pope Leo XIV urged them to forge genuine relationships rooted in Christ rather than ephemeral online connections that can reduce individuals to a ...

Eighty years ago two of the world’s deadliest weapons were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, bringing near-total destruction. But a Catholic monastery built in Nagasaki by a future martyr and ...

The fullness of life depends on how much one joyfully welcomes and shares in life while also living with a constant yearning for those things that only come from God, Pope Leo XIV told young people.

Scripture Reflection for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Wisdom 18:6-9 Psalm 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 or Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-12 Luke 12:32-48 or Luke 12:35-40 Last Sunday’s Gospel ...