Faith

With the Lenten season just barely underway, the Canadian bishops' 'Journey Through Lent' video series is already drawing thousands of Catholic viewers.

The journey of Lent "unfolds amid the remembrance of our fragility and the hope that, at the end of the road, the Risen Lord is waiting for us," Pope Francis wrote in his homily for Ash Wednesday.

Liturgical leaders in the church must serve as humble guides to prayer rather than be strictly focused on the application of rules, Pope Francis said.

For those who recognize Christ as the saviour, death is not an end or a form of "annihilation," Pope Francis wrote in his general audience catechesis. It is a kind of "sister" that introduces the faithful departed to true life.

While priests and lay leaders visualize linear growth and a mass enthusiastic embrace of every new spirituality-building initiative, cultivating a more evangelistic congregational flock requires embracing trial and error.

A light drizzle finally let up as hundreds of faithful headed to St. Peter's Square to pray the rosary for Pope Francis on the 11th day of his hospitalization for double pneumonia.

Hybrid retreat aims to help Catholics draw closer to Jesus this Lenten season by embracing the virtue of mercy.

Pope Francis is urging U.S. Catholics and people of goodwill to not give in to “narratives” that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to migrants and refugees.

For Indigenous communities around the world, "land, water and food are not mere commodities, but the very basis of life and of these peoples' bond with nature," Pope Francis said.

Thanking members of the military and the police for their service, Pope Francis asked them to be on guard against seeing other people as enemies and instead dedicate their lives to defending life, peace and justice.