During Pope Francis’ recent visit to New York, there was over-the-top media reverence for the humble servant of God, there was ecumenical spirit at an interfaith service at the Sept. 11 Memorial ...

Pope Francis meets with comedians at the Apostolic Palace on June 14, 2024, in Vatican City. Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Image When Pope Francis addressed a group of top international ...

Pope Francis had his first full day in the U.S. on Wednesday, and Stephen Colbert, one of the most visible Catholics on TV, was ready with some irreverent humor and Catholic jokes on Wednesday's Late ...

Catholic Twitter is using juxtaposed images of two Olympics shooters to humorously draw distinctions between everything from priests and seminarians to the styles of different Gospel authors. One of ...

Bishop Thomas G. Doran of the Rockford (Illinois) Diocese writes that the seven secular sacraments are “abortion, buggery, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, feminism of the radical type, and genetic ...

In the year 752, a priest named Stephen was elected pope, but died four days later -- before officially filling the chair of St. Peter in Rome. For centuries Catholic records included him as Pope ...

God and comedy clubs are not generally something most families throw together; then again, most families don't create a cable comedy show either. But for Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan, this mix of faith ...

As a fourth-grader, Danielle Schaaf and her schoolmates at St. Luke's Catholic School in Lake Worth, Fla., had no idea that nuns had arms or legs or even hair. During her first four years of parochial ...

For the Most Recent in 'The Best in Catholic Blogging' click on ☩ Big Pulpit ☩. Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope ...

(The Conversation) — When Pope Francis addressed a group of top international comedians on June 14, 2024, he called them “artists” and stressed the value of their talents. To many Catholics, this ...