With its winding, crowd-free streets, baroque palazzos and exquisite Ligurian cuisine, this Cinque Terre stopover deserves to ...

Finished after his death, the Florentine sculptor’s brilliant work in Venice surpassed Donatello’s Statue of Gattamelata and ...

Throughout the centuries, legends and traditions have associated flowers with the Virgin Mary. Here are some of them: Roses and peonies honor Mary.(Photo: Courtesy of Debbie Cowden) 2. Find a few ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated annually on November 21st, commemorates the presentation of the Blessed Virgin as a child by her parents in the Temple in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

According to the Mayor of Daytona Beach, the marble statue of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune will be unveiled in the U.S. Capitol on July 13. Many here in Central Florida already got to see the ...

That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: "The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church.

The circa 1900 barn in Southampton was remade into a five-bedroom residence and a three-level studio and gallery space by the late artist Hal Buckner and philanthropist Dorothy Lichtenstein ...

"'I ask, 'Where are you going for a vacation?' I mean where are you headed in terms of becoming a more well-balanced, spiritually healthy person." Florida's reputation as the Grand Poobah of ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in ...

DAYTONA BEACH — After a three-year journey winding through government approvals, fundraising and complex logistics, the new marble Mary McLeod Bethune statue is complete and about to go on public ...