CatholicPhilly presents a weekly roundup of international news from Vatican News, the official news portal of the Holy See. The following report on the week of Jan. 25, 2026 links to stories on ...

Deacon Greg Kandra provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Feb. 1, 2026.

In this Feb. 28, 2013 file photo Italian President Giorgio Napolitano arrives for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Giorgio Napolitano, the first ...

Catholic high school Spanish teacher Jennifer Vintigni speaks to students learning virtually from home and students working on-site during a class at Padua Academy in Wilmington, Del., March 30, 2021.

This story appears in the USCCB Fall 2016 feature series. View the full series. Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., outgoing president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gives his ...

(RNS) — Depending on what kind of media you consume and the people you talk to, it’s clear that U.S. public education has either been hijacked by wokeism, safetyism and radical individualism or else ...

Pope Leo XIV said Catholic educators can learn four fundamental values from St. Augustine’s teachings: interiority, unity, love and joy. During his Oct. 31 audience with teachers in Rome for the Oct.

Father John Carroll’s consecration as America’s first bishop — fittingly, on the feast of the Assumption 1790 — marked the Church’s transition from infancy to adolescence in our country. More than ...

In 2017 I was invited on a sketching tour of Guatemala with a small group of Americans to observe some of the educational services operated by Catholic Relief Services, or CRS. In August of the ...

SEATTLE — A new generation of Catholics. not yet born or very young when the late Pope Francis was selected in 2013, are now immersed in a real-time lesson about their church. Pope Francis passed away ...

Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) addresses Protestant leaders in Houston in 1960. (Houston Chronicle/AP) In September 1960, Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, against the advice of his ...