The 34-foot white cross towered over the main altar during the saintly pope’s 1979 visit to Philadelphia and later over St.

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In what is seen by the church of Paris as a triumphant return, the famous statue of the Virgin of the Pillar will be restored ...

Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period ...

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Pope Francis presided over the canonization Mass for 11 Christians martyred in 19th-century Syria and three founders of religious orders at the Vatican. October 21st, 2024 at 09:45 am (Europe\Rome).

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Before Pope Francis presides over Mass Nov. 17 for the World Day of the Poor, he will bless 13 keys to ...

The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced the teams and schedule for the inaugural Army National Guard Hoophall Invitational by Spalding. The Hoophall Invitational will feature a 48-team boy’s ...

Cardinals attend a final Mass before the start of the conclave on April 18, 2005, in Vatican City. Mimmo Chianura-Pool/Getty ...

Through three election cycles in Catholicism – conclaves that brought John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis to the papacy – ...

Members of confraternities and sodalities, wearing their capes, join Pope Francis for Mass on the feast of the Body and Blood ...

Other Christian leaders are calling for mixed-status families to be protected ahead of the Republican's inauguration.