Pope Leo XIV's visit to the Basilica of the Holy Family in Barcelona highlights the relationship between the papacy and the sacred edifice, whose history has spanned more than a century.

I experienced a conversion so profound that it changed everything in my life. By grace and no merit of my own, the Holy Spirit came into my soul and inspired me to know that God had not taken anything from me. He had given me the opportunity to hope that my child was in heaven and a saint. I was not robbed by God, but rewarded by Him.

Without meaning to, sport can expose a more transactional way of seeing people. A player is in the team, then they are out.

In this reflection delivered at the Sydney Synod, Alison de Sousa explores how hospitality, outreach and genuine encounter can help people rediscover faith, belonging and hope.

Almost a thousand people packed out St Patrick's Cathedral Parramatta on Sunday 31 May to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Diocese of Parramatta, marking four decades of growth across Western Sydney and the Blue Mountains. 

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged the faithful to keep alive the public witness of faith made visible in Eucharistic processions, recalling that this week the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also known as Corpus Christi.

The rites and symbols of the liturgy are not arbitrary ceremonies but the means through which Catholics encounter God and are formed in faith, Pope Leo XIV said 3 June.