The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

The 1,060-acre site about 11 miles northwest of Rome is home to Vatican Radio's shortwave transmitters and transmission ...

Take a flight of discovery high above the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, one of Rome’s four major papal basilicas. This ...

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, will ordain five new priests for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...

Of all the community members out enjoying the summer weather this weekend, hundreds did so on the grounds of the Basilica of ...

Coeur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which Émile Zola called a "stone host placed on the open wound of the city," celebrates the 150th anniversary of the laying of its first stone. To celebrate her ...

The workers excavating around the Basilica of San Saturnino in Cagliari (Sardinia) in 1623 surely got quite a scare when they ...

Pope Leo remembered Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, the patron saint of athletes, who will be canonized on September 7 this ...

EWTN “The priesthood is the love of the heart of Jesus,” said St. John Vianney, patron of parish priests. In this 12-part ...

The Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels opened its annual BasilicaFEST on Friday afternoon, with live music from Generations, ...

Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo ...