In the traditional Roman calendar Pre-Lent is under way. This Sunday is Sexagesima. In the newfangled calendar it is the 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time. The upcoming Collect is founded on a prayer from the 8th-century, Liber sacramentorum Gellonensis: Deus, qui te in rectis et sinceris manere pectoribus asseris, da nobis tua gratia tales exsistere,

The cardinal addressed priests and lay people during the annual Chrism Mass at Westminster Cathedral yesterday

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Pope Francis said that young people who are fed up with materialism should consider becoming missionaries

Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, Micah 5:1-4; Heb 10:5-10; Luke 1:39-44 (Year C)

Talk of a 'hierarchical' God and a 'vertical' universe overlooks basic Catholic doctrine

'Every family is always a light, however faint, amid the darkness of this world,' says Holy Father

Francis says Church must avoid 'false conflict' between pastors and academics