Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches, today visited Christians in a church in ...

One of the most common explanations is that Valentine's Day has its origins in the ancient Roman fertility festival of ...

The debaucherous festival, which celebrated the coming of spring, included animal sacrifices and drunken ... the celebration of Lupercalia was forbidden by Pope Gelasius I, who is often ...

They are elected, not appointed, as they might be in a kingdom or dictatorship ... “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” (Alexander Pope.) A more complete learning would show that Donald ...

When someone has touched a dead body or an impure animal, when a woman has given birth ... us to reflect on God’s irreplaceable gift, says pope The sea is a symbol of death.

King Charles and Queen Camilla will travel to Italy and the Vatican in April to meet with Pope Francis, as the Catholic ...

Pope Francis highlighted Mary Magdalene’s transformative encounter with the risen Christ as a model for personal conversion during a jubilee year audience at the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on ...

Pope Francis said Monday that Blessed Carlo Acutis shows young people that “the fullness of life” in today’s world is found in following Jesus. Speaking to Catholic pilgrims from Sweden ...

When King Charles completed his tour of Australia and Samoa last year, a royal source said that they were looking towards a normal schedule of overseas visits in 2025. And today, the King and Queen’s ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction, the nation's highest civilian honor, to Pope Francis on Saturday. The medal was scheduled to be presented to the ...