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Prepare space in your hearts for God’s love to grow, pope urges
August 6, 2025Catholics should not neglect “the Lord’s invitation to prepare our hearts by actively participating in the Eucharistic sacrifice and by doing generous acts of charity,” Pope Leo XIV said at his weekly audience Aug. 6.
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Pope to youth: Share Christ’s Good News, not just photos, memories from Jubilee
July 30, 2025Pope Leo XIV encouraged young people to “love and serve freely, in everyday life,” during a July 28 audience at the Vatican.
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St. Paul the Apostle’s new reliquarium a sacred space
July 25, 2025Believers seeking a deeper connection to the sacred gather in a newly blessed chapel in St. Paul the Apostle Church in Cleveland, now home to 33 relics of saints and martyrs.
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Archbishop Pérez, son of migrants, tells migrants: ‘You are not alone’
July 24, 2025“You are not alone,” said Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez of Philadelphia, addressing migrants in a July 23 pastoral letter on immigration. The archbishop is the son of Cuban exiles.
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Archbishop Hartmayer ordains friar priest at Holy Cross Church
July 21, 2025Our Lady of the Angels Province welcomed a new friar priest—Friar Franck Lino Sokpolie, OFM Conv.—ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer, OFM Conv., July 19. He will serve at Holy Cross Church, Atlanta.
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Pope condemns Israel’s attack against church, calls for end to ‘barbarity’
July 20, 2025The “barbarity of war” and forced displacement of people have to end, and civilians and places of worship have to be protected, Pope Leo XIV implored during his July 20 Angelus.
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Senior Side: A visit to church
July 19, 2025I stopped by my parish last week to spend a few minutes in quiet introspection, just me and the Lord. There were only a few other people in the church, probably on a similar mission.
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Sister Mary Pauline Oetgen, CSJ, remembered
July 18, 2025Sister Mary Pauline Oetgen, CSJ, who served as an educator in the Archdiocese of Atlanta and the Diocese of Savannah, died on July 4 in St. Louis. She was 98 years old.
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Pope calls for ceasefire, dialogue, peace after church hit in Gaza
July 17, 2025After a morning attack on the Holy Family Church in Gaza, Pope Leo XIV called for an immediate ceasefire, dialogue and peace in the region. More than 500 people had been sheltering at the church. It is the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip.
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Woman’s vocational journey leads to chicken coops and life of prayer
July 16, 2025Time spent among the brush, caring for chickens and roosters in Conyers, is how Sister Irina Zavala lives out the Catholic practice of “Ora et Labora”–prayer and work.