TODAY host Craig Melvin celebrated a very special milestone for his 8-year-old daughter Sybil this weekend: her Communion day. Craig's wife, Emmy-winning broadcaster Lindsay Czarniak, shared some ...

A little more than one-third grew up in a family indifferent or hostile to religion—sometimes Catholic by tradition—and 11% in another religion—mostly Islam. “Requesting baptism is part of ...

Pope Francis used the words 'gay' and 'transgender' and met with LGBTQ+ people on many occasions. His impact cannot be ...

Pratt delivers a reading from the Gospel According to Mark (“I believe. Help my unbelief”), then Wahlberg delivers his first ...

On Holy Saturday night at the Cathedral, Archbishop Nelson Pérez welcomed into the Catholic Church some of the 725 adults ...

Especially in a Jubilee Year, but also every day, priests are called to continual conversion so that they can authentically ...

mixing their role as the worldwide head of the Catholic Church with informal duties as peace brokers, mediators and ...

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Evan Vucci/AP Photos October 29, 2021: President Joe Biden meets with Pope Francis at the Vatican. As the first Catholic president since John F. Kennedy, Biden engaged in a personal and wide ...

During the Middle Ages, infant baptism became predominant, and the rite was performed earlier and earlier. In 18 th-century Catholic France, it was mandatory to baptize an infant within 24 hours ...

Pope Francis died April 21, 2025, at the age of 88. Born in 1936 as Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pope Francis served as head of the Catholic Church from 2013 until 2025.