Middleburg's Kielce Gussie was raised Catholic, attended Catholic schools and worked for the Vatican in Rome and gave a ...

Francis is not the only pope to rest there. Seven others are buried on the grounds, most notably St. Pius V, who established ...

Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave honor him.

“I believe the Holy Spirit always intervenes in the choosing of the next pope,” the Rev. Halmar Adolis Calix, a priest from Honduras, told me. “And surely, the new pope will continue to give what the ...

With the effort of making a holiday meal still fresh on many minds and leftover ham a not-so-distant memory, consider going out to eat for Mother's Day. Mother's Day falls on Sunday, May 11, and many ...

St. John Paul II called Faustina’s canonization and Divine Mercy Sunday the happiest day of his life — a summit moment of his ...

The decision by Pope Francis to break with tradition and be buried at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome rather ...

In 2023, Pope Francis announced that he would be buried at St. Mary Major; his tomb has been prepared near the Salus Populi ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria ...

In Vatican City, special services are held for the Feast of Saint George at the Pauline Chapel, located within the Apostolic Palace. Roses have long been used to decorate the feast, and books are ...

He then released a follow-up document to the encyclical on Oct. 4, 2023, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi ... environment and to celebrate Earth Day, marked every year on April 22, here are ...

A statue of the Virgin Mary was filmed weeping two days before the Pope’s death ... It was recorded during a Sermon of the Seven Words at St John Eudes Parish, in Aguas Claras, in the department ...