Amid heat and humidity, parents and grandparents packed their little ones into strollers and carriers and brought them out to view the Eucharistic pilgrimage as it made its way through the capital.
While current trends show that 1 in 4 young women today will remain childless, Iona Institute's Breda O'Brien said the huge question is "whether this will be by choice or circumstance."
The choice of the holy men and women featured in videos created with artificial intelligence is related to the places the pope will be visiting and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament.
Only the second International Shrine in the Philippines, the Batangas sanctuary will mark its new status with a formal declaration on the saint's Sept. 23 memorial.
Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David is advising a new civilian-led body seeking to document the thousands killed during Rodrigo Duterte's anti-drug campaign.
The turnout was extraordinary, but more so was the astonishing sight of the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe suddenly falling some 16 feet from its stand and remaining intact.
Family members killed in southern Lebanon, French lawmakers protect the seal of confession, Salesian martyrs to be beatified in Poland, and more in this week’s roundup of Catholic world news.
A resident of Rmeish whose daughter received her first Communion said villagers there have effectively been living in a state of war since Oct. 8, 2023.