This Sunday, Trinity Sunday (Year C), is an opportunity, after the long slog of Lent and Easter, to arrive at last back at the familiar territory of Ordinary Time and remember who we are by marveling at who God is and what he has made for us. Here are five takeaways from Sunday Readings columns at this site and the Extraordinary Story podcast.

“The Church needs you.” In the first week of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV spoke these words to members of the Eastern Catholic Churches gathered in Rome to celebrate the Jubilee. On June 2nd, he also honored an Eastern Catholic martyr, Blessed Iuliu Hossu, the Greek-Catholic Bishop of Cluj-Gherla. These providential encounters with the Christian East remind us of John Paul II’s insistent cry in Ut Unum Sint...

Eric and Grace Morrison have never pressured their seven children to pursue the priesthood or religious life. Their son Danny, who is a transitional deacon in the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., jokingly describes his vocation story as “boring.” There was “no big turnaround moment of conversion, but just this slow call of the Lord throughout my early life,” he told the Register.

Before we get started on the news, I just wanted to say a quick something about yesterday’s feast of Christ the Eternal High Priest. For various reasons, a good portion of my closest friends are priests, and for various other reasons, I spend a good portion of my professional life talking to priests, here in my home diocese and around the country and the world. I know and love men serving God’s people the best they can...

The Vatican announced Friday that Blessed Carlo Acutis and Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, two young Catholics beloved for their vibrant faith and witness to holiness, will be canonized together on Sept. 7. The date was set during the first ordinary public consistory of cardinals of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, held June 13 at the Apostolic Palace...

An accidental discovery might change how we think about one of the most mysterious structures in our solar system. The Oort Cloud, a large expanse of icy bodies revolving around the sun at a distance 1,000 times greater than the orbit of Neptune, is widely thought to be spherical — although it has never been directly observed...

Looking back at the history itself is useful. It can be tempting to look back through rose-colored glasses on the “early, undivided Church” and imagine that things were perfect. Yet the reality is quite different. The Church of the first three centuries was a body often persecuted by the Roman government. This persecution was sporadic, and scholars debate the details and severity of the various instances...

This new Webb image of NGC 602 includes data from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-InfraRed Camera) and MIRI (Mid-InfraRed Instrument)...

Pope Leo XIV on June 12 joined the Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) in expressing condolences and prayers following the crash of the Air India Boeing Dreamliner to London that killed nearly 250 passengers shortly after takeoff at Ahmedabad, the commercial capital of western Gujarat state.

Two reasons Pope St. John Paul II accelerated the canonization process were to highlight two truths: that sanctity is “always in season” and not just something from times long ago, and that there are martyrs for the faith today, not just in the Colosseum and Roman Empire. The choice to live according to God’s will — or not — is one in every time and season.