Empowering Change: Mercy Cross Center Day Center’s Client-Driven Approach
Update on Mercy Cross Day Center By Jennifer Williams, LSWDiocesan DirectorCatholic Charities of South Mississippi Mercy Cross Day Center (MCDC)...
Pope Leo XIV explains why Catholics fast during Lent
Pope Leo XIV speaks to visitors during his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican...
Oldest priest in Archdiocese of Newark reflects on 104 years of life and 78 years of ministry
Msgr. James C. Turro greets a young parishioner at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Park Ridge, N.J., in an...
Assisi relic arrives in Southern Arabian vicariate
A Franciscan friar hands a reliquary to Bishop Paolo Martinelli, apostolic vicar of Southern Arabia, Feb. 9, 2026, in Assisi,...
Pope Leo XIV prays at Vatican’s Lourdes grotto for the sick on World Day of the Sick
Pope Leo XIV greets a child in the Lourdes Grotto at the Vatican Gardens on the World Day of the...
The Origins of Valentine’s Day
Believe it or not, Valentine’s Day arrives on Saturday. And Ash Wednesday arrives thefollowing week. It makes one wonder where...
New York’s new archbishop ‘grounded’ by love of God, the poor and the people he serves
Then-Father Ronald A. Hicks is pictured in an undated photo blessing children during an Ash Wednesday Mass while he was...
New Wine for a New Season: Enrollment Now Open
One of the blessings of ministry is recognizing when something good needs room to grow. Since 2002, the New Wine...
US bishops commemorate Black History Month: ‘Let us be faithful stewards of memory’
Father Kareem Smith, president of the National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus, speaks during Mass at the inaugural New York Black...
Sister Thea Bowman’s sainthood moving forward to Vatican review
Sister Thea Bowman, a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration from Canton, Miss., who was nationally known for her work to...
Taste of Asia: St Joseph Church Event in Moss Point
On January 24, 2026 St Joseph the Worker Church in Moss Point MS hosted the second of a series of...