Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and ...

Mary the Mother of Jesus cuts a special place in the New Testament and, in fact, through the Redemption story in the entire ...

The Bangsamoro government on Tuesday, April 22, expressed its solidarity with the Roman Catholic community in the region ...

Prayers are being held today at Catholic centers in metro Detroit for Pope Francis, who died at 88. Catholics and others in ...

Pope Francis prayed alone in a rainy St. Peter’s Square, urging global unity and faith as he blessed the world during the ...

Pope Francis to be buried on Saturday outside St. Peter’s Basilica in a simple earth tomb as per his final wish ...

Pope Francis, 88, died Monday morning at the Vatican. Cardinal Camerlengo Kevin Joseph Farrell was seen sealing the door to ...

Another held a framed portrait of the Blessed Virgin Mary holding her child ... often railed against Pope Francis. 'A symbol of faith and social change': Leaders in Michigan reflect on Pope ...

Pope Francis, who died April 21 at age 88, "will long be remembered for his outreach to those on the margins of the Church ...

Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke and heart failure, the Vatican said. Francis was last seen Sunday when he gave the ...

Christians today celebrate Good Friday, the day of Christ's suffering, when Jesus was condemned and crucified on Golgotha, ...

At the annual pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady in Doumelong, Bishop Paul Lontsié-Keuné of Cameroon’s Catholic Diocese of ...