Pope Francis on Monday named the first woman to head a major Vatican office, appointing an Italian nun, Sister Simona ...

Pope Francis will open the Holy Year of the Catholic Church ... decorations in the small town in the West Bank and the lighting of a Christmas tree in front of the Church of the Nativity are ...

To pursue their ambitious project to build a ‘21st-century abbey’ using the ancestral skills of stonecutters, the Benedictine ...

ROME – Despite Catholicism’s broad reputation for being pro-migrant, especially in the Pope Francis era, in one northern Italian town the church has ... with a small stove before eventually ...

The Italian ... Catholic faithful. Writing in the Catholic daily La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, Luisella Scrosati called the planned events a “defeat not only of the moral doctrine of the Church ...

They all traveled hundreds of miles to step inside the Virgin Mary’s house, which is preserved inside a basilica in the small Italian town of Loreto. Catholic ... style church around the house.

John Last John Last History Correspondent Every year in mid-November, the small northern town of Mirano ... of the most beloved saints in the Catholic Church, particularly in Europe, and yet ...

The Feast of the Seven Fishes — in Italian “La Vigilia,” which ... The Feast of the Seven Fishes tradition is also tied to the Catholic Church’s practice of not eating meat during certain ...

A road trip through Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state leads to German and Italian cuisine ... or “Chorus Festival,” held in the Catholic church of a 1,200-person speck of a town called ...

At the time, the neighborhood functioned as L.A.'s Little Italy, centered by St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, which is still billed as southern California's National Italian parish. "When he ...

The two Italian men will be formally declared saints during solemn ceremonies taking place during the Holy Year in April and August. Acutis will become the Catholic Church's first millennial saint ...