Cardinals from 71 different nationalities are gathering later this week to vote for the new pope in the Sistine Chapel ...

Donations of clothing and nonperishable foods will be accepted from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 3, at the Hollidaysburg ...

The money was taken from collection bags at Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church on Amherst Street.

Rome—The Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church ...

The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in ...

Legend has it that this fourth century church was built after the Virgin Mary appeared in a dream to an aristocrat, Giovanni, ...

Catholic worshippers have claimed to witness a miracle just days before the death of Pope Francis I was announced. The video appears to show a statue of the Virgin Mary with what those who were ...

‘All generations will call me blessed': ‘The Church's devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship ... this devotion to the Virgin Mary." 1 1. CCC, 971.

For example, the Virgin Mary is often shown with a white hare or rabbit, symbolizing that she overcame sexual temptation. But it is in the folk traditions of England and Germany that the figure of ...