The Holy See Press Office releases Pope Leo XIV's upcoming liturgical celebrations for the month of May, which include the ...

In his first outing as pope, Leo XIV made an unannounced visit to a shrine dedicated to Saint Augustine in a small town ...

Pope Francis to be buried in Saint Mary Major church, not Saint Peter's basilica, in a break with tradition and sign of humility.

A new biography of the French painter brims with reputation-redeeming surprises about the rascal of the South Seas.

Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, then president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, led a "Renewal of the ...

He went there principally to pray to the Salus Populi Romani, health or protectress of the Roman people in Latin, a painting on cedar wood that shows the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus. This icon was ...

He went there principally to pray to the Salus Populi Romani, health or protectress of the Roman people in Latin, a painting on cedar wood that shows the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus. This icon ...

America had previously been dedicated to Mary on several different occasions.

Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, coadjutor archpriest of Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major, discussed the pope’s decision to be ...

Pope Francis praying in front of an icon of the Virgin Mary during a visit to the Santa Maria Maggiore in June 2023 Santa Maria Maggiore's senior priest, the Lithuanian Rolandas Makrickas ...