IMAGE: CNS photo/Rhina Guidos By Rhina Guidos WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The ask for baby items heading to the Holy Land couldn't be more appropriate: "swaddling clothes needed." The Gospel of...

IMAGE: CNS photo/Vatican Media By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Christmas season is a time to reflect on what life is all about, Pope Francis told an international group of performers...

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis' 2019-20 Christmas season celebrations will include the usual liturgies and traditions. Releasing the pope's schedule Dec. 12, the...

IMAGE: CNS photo/Paul Haring By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Pope Francis said she reminds Catholics of her true essence as a woman, a mother and...

IMAGE: CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Los Angeles By LOS ANGELES (CNS) -- Mary, the Mother of God is "the mother of all of us," Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in his homily...