The Many Lives of Anne Frank” is trenchant, elegant and relevant — beautifully written, almost like a novel. Franklin achieves the seemingly impossible: Allowing the reader to see the flesh-and-blood ...

Pope Leo XIV prays before the "Salus Populi Romani," ("Salvation of the Roman People"), a Marian icon in a chapel ...

Pope Leo XIV declared himself a Roman on Sunday as he completed the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome.

The crowd in St. Peter's Square erupted into applause as the ... his hospitalizations to pray in front of his favorite icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On a simple marble slab in a space that ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of ...

Pope Leo XIV's inaugural Mass at St. Peter's Square is an ancient ritual filled with symbolism that connects back to Peter, ...

Pope Leo XIV ’s inauguration Mass on Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Square and Basilica is a ritual filled with symbolism that ...

Addressing crowds in St. Peter's Square on Sunday ... He also prayed at the icon of the Virgin, Salus Populi Romani, that is the same icon Pope Francis used to visit before and after every ...

In Egypt, at the ancient Orthodox monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai is an icon of Peter holding the keys from the 6th century, which was used in devotional practices. The keys are heavy ...

An estimated 200,000 people also attended a special Mass at St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday by ... of burial in St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna that he revered, because it ...