Today the Church canonized seven new saints, including the first two Venezuelans ever to be canonized: St. José Gregorio Hernández and St. María del Carmen Rendiles. In Venezuela, everyone is excited about those canonizations — and the embattled regime of President Nicolas Maduro has even gotten in on things, sponsoring celebrations across the country to mark the canonization.

Presuming the content of the material you view is innocent — not pornographic, and so forth — there is nothing in what you have said that suggests viewing them is in itself mortally sinful. To commit a mortal sin, three conditions must be met. First, the act that you commit must constitute “grave matter.” When we speak about an act’s matter, we are referring to the degree of the wrongness of the act...

The causes of saints usually take decades to reach canonization. It also happens that saints long in the making — or better, in the recognizing — arrive at the altar at exactly the right time. On Nov. 12, 1989, just days after the tearing open of the Berlin Wall, Pope St. John Paul II canonized St. Agnes of Prague, 700 years after her death, and John Paul’s 19th-century fellow Cracovian, Brother Albert Chmielowski...

I am grateful to OSV News for reporting on my concerns about the USCCB’s granting of an imprimatur to the New Revised Standard Version updated edition (NRSVue) Bible. I appreciate USCCB Scripture scholar Father Pablo Gadenz responding directly to my concerns. But I found his responses unpersuasive, and I still think the imprimatur should be withdrawn, for the reasons below.

Are you waiting to find "the one?" The perfect job? Maybe just a general feeling of contentment in your life? God's timing is often (usually!) not our timing. So what can you do? Meet Blessed Sebastian of Aparicio—a man who built roads, made a fortune, and waited decades for his deepest prayer to be answered, but it didn't go quite like he envisioned it. His story is a powerful reminder...

Most Catholics have had the experience of looking up a psalm, only to discover that the psalm number they’ve been given is different from the one printed in their Bible. This experience can be a source of confusion and frustration, and it raises some obvious questions: Why are there different numbering systems for the psalms? And which system is correct?

Pope Leo XIV proclaimed seven new saints on Sunday before an estimated 70,000 people in St. Peter’s Square, including the first saints from Venezuela and Papua New Guinea and a former Satanist who underwent a dramatic conversion to become an “apostle of the rosary.”

At least 2,000 faithful participated in an annual London Rosary Crusade of Reparation on Saturday — a notably large gathering that organizers hope reflects a fledgling revival of faith in England. Participants of all ages and backgrounds prayed the Rosary and sang hymns along the two-mile procession from Westminster Cathedral to the London Brompton Oratory...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Chicago Archbishop Cardinal Blase Cupich to the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State, the Holy See said on Wednesday. The Vatican made the announcement via a press release on Oct. 15. The commission functions as the legislative body of Vatican City. In addition to managing the many functions and activities of the Vatican City government...

The crisis of responsibility, which is obvious to anyone today, first took root in our homes. We should then address it in our home life. For, of course, home is the ‘home’ of responsibility. There is no context that so clearly demands taking responsibility for others than marriage and family. And a person learns to be responsible if others take responsibility for him, beginning in these basic relationships of human life...