By donating to the annual Catholic Relief Services collection of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholics “have the opportunity to walk with Jesus on his mission of mercy,” said the chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on National Collections.

The Holy Land remains perhaps the most hotly contested piece of territory in the Middle East, if not the world.

Since the Eucharist is so closely connected with Jesus, we may forget that this “central event of salvation” crowns many millennia of preparation.

When it comes to inspiring people’s actions, Jesus knew that being an example to others is more important than “a flood of words,” Pope Francis said.

Alabama’s Republican Gov. Kay Ivey March 6 signed into law a bill passed by lawmakers to grant legal protection to in vitro fertilization clinics after a ruling by that state’s Supreme Court found that frozen embryos qualify as children under the state law’s wrongful death law.