Pope Leo XIV’s hometown is poised to acquire his childhood home. Board members in suburban Dolton outside Chicago voted unanimously Tuesday to purchase the property in hopes it will breathe new ...

People visit the Pauline Chapel, where the icon of Madonna and Child Jesus is displayed, inside the Vatican’s Basilica of St. Mary Major, in Rome Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.

Ordained a priest on Easter Sunday 1899, Father Eugenio Pacelli offered his first Mass the next day, April 3, 1899, in the chapel of the Salus Populi Romani icon at St. Mary Major — the very ...

A doorway to the left of a confessional is seen in Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary Major March 31, 2025. In his autobiography, released in January, Pope Francis said his tomb would be “in the room where ...

St. Mary's Catholic Church in Oak Ridge has asked the community to join the church in "praying the Rosary for the repose of the soul of Pope Francis" at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 21, in the church ...

Between 1801 and 1823, Abbe Dubois established a St Mary’s Chapel, the first Catholic church in Bangalore Cantonment, in an area called Blackpully (today’s Shivajinagar).

There are about 400 graves on the chapel grounds, including 60 to 70 inside the chapel, above, which Historic St. Mary’s City Maryland Heritage Scholar Henry Miller said was the largest cemetery ...

The choice was deeply symbolic. The Basilica of St. Mary Major has long been a cornerstone of devotion to the Nativity of Christ. Known as “the Bethlehem of the West,” it houses a relic ...

Thousands of years ago the Holy Family made a pilgrimage, a journey, to Bethlehem. Mary and Joseph went with faith and trust where they were called.

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A statue of Mary holding Jesus stands Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024, in the Portiuncula Chapel at the St. Francis Retreat House in Bethlehem Township. (David Garrett/Special to The Morning Call) ...