By Tessa Gervasini Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 4, 2025 / 13:52 pm As part of a new Catholic ministry, the Archdiocese of Miami celebrated its first Mass at the Florida detention center for unauthorized immigrants known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” “I am pleased that our request to provide for the pastoral care …

By Amira Abuzeid Houston, Texas, Aug 4, 2025 / 06:00 am One month has passed since some of the deadliest and most destructive flooding in the state’s history took at least 136 lives in the Texas Hill Country over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Of the confirmed dead, 108 were in Kerr …

At the conclusion of the closing Mass for the Jubilee of Youth, Pope Leo remembers young people suffering “the most serious evils” caused by other human beings, mentioning specifically war-torn Gaza, Ukraine, and “every land bloodied by war.” Vatican News Just before the conclusion of the closing Mass for the …

By Victoria Cardiel Vatican City, Aug 1, 2025 / 07:00 am With more than a million followers across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and other platforms, Father Cosimo Schena has become one of the most recognizable faces of the so-called “digital missionary” phenomenon in Italy. “The illness of this century is loneliness, and …