For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

Workers on the roof were placing shingles when they saw smoke and called 911. Large flames and black smoke were later seen ...

MARIA STEIN — The Archdiocese of Cincinnati has issued a statement after a fire damaged a beloved local Catholic church. News ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

When the Catholic Church canonizes someone who died recently ... It was Francis who finally declared John XXIII a saint in 2013, canonizing him the following year, on the same day he canonized ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

This priest who was canonized by Pope St. Paul VI the same year as St. Teresa would be named the 34th doctor of the Church ... Catholic figures of his time, and much more. St. John of Ávila ...

The tradition of popes taking new names upon their election is one of the most recognizable customs in the Roman Catholic ...

Since the Middle Ages, the Holy See has positioned itself as the preeminent mediator for international conflicts regardless ...

BENSONHURST — St. DOMINIC CHURCH in Bensonhurst dedicated new statues of St. John XXIII and St. Teresa of Calcutta (aka Mother Teresa) on May 4, replacing those destroyed by a vandal in June ...

VATICAN CITY - When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio emerged onto the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica after the conclave of March 2013, few outside his native Argentina knew who he was or what kind ...