News from Saint John and Beyond

ENCYCLICAL LETTER FRATELLI TUTTI OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON THE FRATERNITY AND SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP “FRATELLI TUTTI”. With these words, Saint Francis of Assisi addressed his brothers and sisters and...

(1.20am ET – Updated with further developments.)  Every fourth year, what's normally the third Thursday in October is always a moment to remember. But both in terms of its setting and the...

In a 2016 interview with his hometown paper, Pope Francis told La Nación one key to his governing style:  "I don't cut off heads," he said. "I've never liked...

(Updated with homily.) One hundred sixty years ago, on the eve of a Civil War whose echoes have eerily resurfaced in these days, the bond between Catholicism's oldest diocese in these States and the...

As the Vatican’s working year wends toward its close at month’s end, a cycle interrupted by a historic outbreak is making up for lost time, and wrapping up with more than one bang. Accordingly, Roman...

Always slated to be American Catholicism's Main Event of 2020 – yet now, an even more poignant and notable one amid the pandemic that's robbed it of a congregation – from Atlanta's empty Cathedral of...

Fifty days into a Stateside Church in lockdown, this first of May brings the latest edition of a ritual as old as American Catholicism itself. A practice employed both in hours of celebration and...