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

St. John Kanty Church in Buffalo closes its doors. Parishioners debate its future as emotions run high in this close-knit community.

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

There’s a chance crews might be able to save a historic church that went up in flames on Thursday. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV ...

As pope, Leo XIV has focused clearly on peace policy, swiftly addressing the Ukraine and Gaza wars. He thus joins the ...

Emanuela Orlandi, new hearings before the parliamentary inquiry commission on the disappearance of the 15-year-old Vatican ...

In 400 he entered into the discipleship of St ... John also authored the work De Incarnatione Doniini, in seven books, at the behest of Pope Leo I the Great so as to inform the Western Church ...

“Being more closely united to Christ, those who dwell in heaven fix the whole Church more ... good on earth." [St. Therese of Lisieux, The Final Conversations, tr. John Clarke (Washington ...

Today in History for June 3: ...

Pope John XXIII - who was ... He reorganized the church's government to enhance its impact and announced a jubilee to facilitate the Council's reception within the Catholic Church.

Popes John Paul II (pope from 1978-2005) and John XXIII (1958-1963) were canonized by Pope Francis on April 27, 2014, in St. Peter's Square ... significant date in the Catholic liturgical calendar ...