The Church grants a plenary indulgence just for visiting a cemetery during Nov. 1-8 and praying for the dead. All we need to do is show up and pray. An appropriate text for that purpose is the prayer ...

The church is called to pray. As disciples, we are called to have a personal life of prayer. As the body of believers – the church – we are called together to have a communal life of prayer. The two ...

On Sunday, March 9, Wesley United Methodist Church, 14 N. May St. in Aurora, will open the Lenten sermon series “A Praying Church: Becoming a People of Prayer.” Lead Pastor Tammy Scott will preach on ...

Pope Francis leads his general audience in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican April 14, 2021. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ weekly Wednesday audience, ...

Sunday, July 18, is the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass Readings: Jeremiah 23:1-6; Psalm 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6; Ephesians 2:13-18; Mark 6:30-34. The readings for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time focus ...

Pope Francis is inviting Catholics around the world to pray this month that the Church receives the grace “to reform herself in the light of the Gospel.” He made the appeal in his prayer intention for ...

More than 300 faith, business and political leaders have convened for a national prayer breakfast in the world's oldest ...

On the feast of the patron saint of immigrants — and a day after the U.S. Catholic bishops issued a special pastoral message ...

More than 500 church leaders and members in 45 countries with close ties to China signed an online prayer petition in ...

In recent months, tensions between the government and the Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), its independent national church, ...