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Official and unofficial teachings in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, namely a belief in a premortal life, ...

Perhaps you’ve never heard of St. Leonard or his sister who had also entered religious life, Sister Mary Genevieve.

Well before the French-Canadian parish completed the present upper church in the south end of Fall River in 1906, the basement shrine to St. Anne (the mother of Mary and therefore grandmother of Jesus ...

Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church's most celebrated ...

Faithful leave the the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore after visiting the tomb of 15-year-old Carlo Acutis, an Italian boy who ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

Assisi, the medieval Italian town revered as the home of Saints Francis and Clare, is experiencing a new wave of pilgrim ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Roughly 100 Catholics from across the county paraded down Worth Avenue, singing hymns and reciting prayers in veneration of ...

In the Annunciation, “the Angel of the Lord declared unto Mary (a teenager then), and she was conceived by the Holy Spirit.” ...

St Joseph, the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus, exerts a powerful and enduring influence on the Christian imagination. His feast day is celebrated this Wednesday, March 19. We know little of this man ...