Cardinal Marcello Semeraro outlines the journey to canonization. Even from his hospital bed, Pope Francis wanted to make sure ...

The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs.

Therefore the Spirit and the Church pray ... the feast of Saint Joseph, the feast of the Apostles Saints Peter and Paul, and the feast of All Saints." ...

From its humble beginnings with St. Peter to its modern incarnation as a global spiritual authority, the office of the Pope has seen both saints ... the Catholic Church has faced global scandals ...

As he enters his 13th year as pope, Francis stands tall as the moral authority in today’s world, a voice pleading for humanity, peace and respect for the dignity of all people.

Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. St. Katharine Drexel is honored in the church on March 3. This story was first published by the National Catholic Register ... on the saint’s feast day Jan ...

Anthony J. Drexel helped finance the creation of the building now housing Reading Terminal Market and the Pennsylvania ...

After night fell, thousands of faithful gathered in a rain-soaked St. Peter’s Square for the first of a nightly ritual recitation of the Rosary. The prayer evoked the 2005 vigils when St. John Paul II ...

Francis regularly approves decrees from the Vatican's saint ... St. Peter's Square for the first of a nightly recitation of the Rosary. The prayer evoked the 2005 vigils when St. John Paul II ...

What Benedict stored … Pope Benedict was a scholar, a theologian, who stored the deposit of faith, added to it, interpreted ...

He regularly approves decrees from the Vatican’s saint-making office ... and regardless there is no provision in the Catholic Church to transfer full papal power except in the case of a ...