Here are six perspectives on the Sign of the Cross that reveal why making it opens us to life-transforming graces.

Nigeria has remained a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa, but a network of Catholic Sisters of St. Louis at the Bakhita Empowerment center, a safehouse in Lagos, is determined to change that.

Pope Francis asked Catholics to get ready for the jubilee journey with a Year of Prayer and now, a few months after the year was officially announced, a kind of prayer prep-school is in session.

Supreme Knight Patrick E. Kelly said the need for lay Catholics to take part in the church’s evangelization is “especially urgent in our time” and is one of the three main duties that laypeople have in carrying out the Church’s mission.

Photos featured this week include a National March for Life in Warsaw, Poland, an immigration conference at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and more.

Some of the Gospel accounts are strange to us. When we read or hear these stories at Mass, we can’t help but wonder what in the world was going on. How is it possible that the people who knew Jesus best didn’t know him when they saw him?

Pope Francis and his international Council of Cardinals continued their discussions about the role of women in the church, listening to women experts, including a professor who spoke about how culture impacts women’s roles and status.

Photos featured this week include a candlelit procession in memory of the six crewmen who died in the Baltimore bridge collapse, on-going restoration at Notre Dame Cathedral  and more.