Sister Amiya spent 42 years as a teacher and has been a passionate composer of sacred music. The Bangladeshi religious has written lyrics for more than 100 hymns.

Sitting in our modest Lutheran Church in Huron, South Dakota — which had no Virgin Mary statues, saints or even bright colors — I leaned toward my mother and whispered, ...

No matter the language, Maria R. Nieva is pleased to greet the Blessed Mother in song. Nieva, a music minister in Our Lady of ...

It's World Mission Sunday. This special day in the Catholic liturgical calendar was created by Pope Pius XI in the mid-1920s ...

Wendy Lynn Platt wrote "Help Us Remember" for the 1997 Church Music Festival. Now it is in the new global hymnbook. She hopes it helps people look more closely at the ordinance of the sacrament.

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "Purgatory:" 1031. "The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of ...

A man had more than 200 handmade destructive devices — including bottle rockets and molotov cocktails — in a tent on the steps of a D.C. cathedral where Supreme Court justices were expected to attend ...

COMMENTARY: As the Church celebrates all her saints, we remember their witness that faith is a love story — one that is true and demands our whole hearts.

Pope Leo XIV declares St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church, quoting from the saint's famous hymn, "Lead, Kindly Light," and holding him up as a model for educators.

COMMENTARY: The Second Vatican Council reminded the faithful that in serving the poor, the Church encounters Christ himself — the Savior who became poor to make the world rich with grace. Mother ...

More than a thousand climate activists and church leaders gathered at the Vatican last week for a summit led by Pope Leo. The Vatican is moving forward with plans to become the first carbon-neutral ...

This is the text from Pope Leo XIV’s homily pronounced at the Mass for the Jubilee of the World of Education and proclamation of St. John Henry Newman as “Doctor of the Church” on All Saints Day, Nov.