An Italian “ghost town” is now attracting thousands of tourists and reversed its demise – by commissioning artists to paint ...

This year marks the 125th anniversary since Pope Leo XIII declared Rita of Cascia a saint during the Great Jubilee Year of 1900. To celebrate this, numerous commemorations took place worldwide in ...

It’s titillating to imagine Pope Leo roaming the city, chowing down on an Italian-beef sandwich ... he taught at St. Rita of Cascia High School, on the South Side. He visited the parish last ...

Rita has often been spoken of — like St. Jude Thaddeus — as a patron of “impossible causes” and of difficult marriages. Her incorrupt body remains in a glass coffin in Cascia, Italy (about ...

The priest from St. Rita of Cascia Parish on the city’s Southwest Side went to bed that night not expecting an immediate reply from the newly selected leader of 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide ...

The Augustinian priests and brothers who live at St. Rita of Cascia Parish and teach at St. Rita’s of Cascia High School, on the city’s Southwest side, were overjoyed at the election of the ...

"In the name of the gravy, the bun, and hot giard, we introduce The Leo: a divinely seasoned Italian beef ... and was a teacher at St. Rita of Cascia High School. Portillo's, meanwhile, was ...

When the news broke that Prevost was elected, she went straight from her home in Bridgeport to St. Rita of Cascia High School at 7740 S. Western Ave. in Ashburn to be with her 17-year-old son ...

When the news broke that Prevost was elected, she went straight from her home in Bridgeport to St. Rita of Cascia High School at 7740 S. Western Ave. in Ashburn to be with her 17-year-old son ...

St. Rita of Cascia’s original name was Margherita Ferri Lotti. Married to a dissolute Italian nobleman who died in a brawl, she became a nun renowned for her piety whose prayers were ...

Among the saint relics on display at St. Rita of Cascia Church in Chicago Lawn are remains from St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, St. Augustine of Hippo and St. Thomas Aquinas. They are first-class ...

At an April 5 audience with members of the Franciscan communities of La Verna, Italy, where St. Francis ... Padre Pio, Faustina Kowalska and Rita of Cascia. Like St. Francis, those who ...