La Croix: Eight million pilgrims are expected in Goa to view the relics of Saint Francis Xavier. What explains such enthusiasm? Michel Chambon: This deeply rooted tradition was established by the ...

Cardinal François-Xavier Bustillo described Pope Leo ... after the May 8 conclave that elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the Church’s 267th pope. Speaking with ACI Stampa, CNA ...

Imagine what the towering St. Francis Xavier Church did to the Missoula landscape when it was completed on West Pine Street in 1892. There was no university, no Wilma Theatre or courthouse bell ...

Pope Francis ... galvanized the Roman Catholic Church and drew widespread admiration from outsiders almost from the moment of his surprise election to the throne of St. Peter in 2013, has died.

Pope Francis charmed the world with those poignant acts of love, humility and informality, starting with his first appearance as pontiff on the loggia of St ... for a Catholic Church beset ...

New rules allow a pope to be buried in a church other than St. Peter’s. Francis asked to be buried in the Basilica of St. Mary Major, a church in Rome he often visited to pray in. Within 15 to ...

Chapel Prayers, 10:15 am from the funeral home to St. Francis Xavier Church, La Grange for an 11am Funeral Mass on Monday, March 24th. Interment to follow at Queen of Heaven Cemetery, Hillside. Addtl.

It's fried fish season! Lent, which this year begins on March 5, is a 40-day period of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that leads up to Easter. In the Catholic tradition, people abstain from ...

It's fried fish season! Lent, which this year begins on March 5, is a 40-day period of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that leads up to Easter. In the Catholic tradition, people abstain from eating ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) - The St. Francis Xavier Catholic School System has announced that they’ve appointed a new president. Terry Tyrrell has been appointed by the Board of Trustees, they ...

APPLETON - St. Francis Xavier Catholic Schools has appointed a new president, the Diocese of Green Bay announced Thursday. Terry Tyrrell, who has spent his career working in Catholic schools ...

Thomas Campbell Bolling Von Goetz, 56, was taken into custody on Dec. 24 after incidents at the Holy Angels Catholic Church in Avenue, Maryland and St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Leonardtown.