The Chair of St. Peter in 2024 at St. Peter’s Basilica, exposed for the first time since 1867. (Wikimedia Commons) It’s 39 ...

Spurred on by the fervor of the Eucharistic faith of New Yorkers, six young adult perpetual pilgrims and I, accompanied by ...

How a group of Florentine businessmen became the founders of an order that would span continents and centuries.

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

VATICAN—Pope Francis onadded the September 5 feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta to the Catholic Church’s liturgical calendar as an optional memorial. The decree issued February 11 by the Vatican noted ...

Catholic and Orthodox — fall on the same date, April 20, due to the alignment of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.

Valentine's Day was originally a Christian feast day which was associated with Christian martyrs, with the most famous of ...

Valentine’s Day is one of the world’s most commercialised religious holidays – second only perhaps to Christmas. Originally ...

Was Saint Valentine Greek? A Catholic community on Lesvos says there are strong clues that he was either Greek or of Greek ...

Historically speaking, there are multiple saints named Valentine or Valentinus - all of whom were martyred. The saint we're ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a “beacon of hope” and an example of ...

From glow-in-the-dark rosary beads to St. Christopher dashboard statues and Pope Francis bobbleheads, a tribute to the ...