The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

Cardinal Robert W. McElroy, the archbishop of Washington, will ordain five new priests for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...

Of all the community members out enjoying the summer weather this weekend, hundreds did so on the grounds of the Basilica of ...

Coeur, or Basilica of the Sacred Heart, which Émile Zola called a "stone host placed on the open wound of the city," celebrates the 150th anniversary of the laying of its first stone. To celebrate her ...

Pope Leo remembered Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, the patron saint of athletes, who will be canonized on September 7 this ...

BasilicaFEST — with activities set at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels on West Henley Street and Gargoyle Park — gets ...

Two holy relics of St. Anthony of Padua, who is widely revered as a great “miracle worker” due to the number of miracles attributed to his intercession, were displayed at the parish of Most Holy ...

The whole cast and crew of the new exorcism movie were attentive to getting the Catholic elements of the film correct.

Pope Leo XIV proceeded to the Basilica of St. Mary Major, where the Virgin Mary is venerated under the title Salus Populi Romani (“Health of the Roman People”). The Holy Father arrived at the ...

he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good Counsel in the medieval village of Genazzano and on the drive back stopped to pray by Pope Francis’ tomb in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome.

Rome, Italy and Vatican City – Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle and Pablo Virgilio Cardinal David joined the other Catholic cardinals already in Rome in visiting the tomb of Pope Francis in the Papal ...