The Gospel passage for Peter and Paul is Matthew 16: “You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church.” Leo XIV began his first homily the day after his election by quoting Peter’s confession ...

Father John Vespa from Australia, one of the thirty-two deacons ordained by the Pope in St. Peter’s Basilica, shares his ...

St. Peter’s Fiesta takes place on the weekend closest to the Feast Day of St. Peter, which this year is June 29, and is ...

This is the first temple in Hungary, even though the Church has had a presence in the country since 1885 when the first ...

KENOSHA — When you hear terms like “kugelis” and “Lithuanian sausage,” you know it’s time for the St. Peter Catholic Church festival.

The mummy of the ‘air-dried chaplain’ in his coffin in the church crypt of St. Thomas am Blasenstein, Austria. Credit: Andreas Nerlich. Credit: Andreas Nerlich Researchers discovered a centuries-old ...

A battle for the soul of the Catholic Church: What's at stake in conclave this week The most globally representative group of cardinals in history will be weighing such factors as geography ...

The St. Peter’s Society, which was formed in the late 1800s to build and preserve the St. Peter Church, offered to pay for the study but the church hasn’t responded, Kern said last month.

St Peter RC Church was designed by John O'Neill and William Henry Byrne,built in a French Gothic Style of local limestone ashlar and opened its doors in 1884. It is renowned for its tall west ...

The death of a pope triggers a centuries-old ritual to elect a new one. It involves sacred oaths, the piercing of ballots with a needle and thread, and then burning them.

What are the Catholic Church’s rites after the death of a pope and the election of a new one? Pope Francis sits by the coffin of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in St. Peter’s Square during a ...