Pope Francis' Christmas Eve Mass will start two hours earlier, the Vatican said on Thursday, allowing even the limited number of people who can attend to get home by a 10 p.m. Italian curfew to ...

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day morning, Dec. 25 — a custom dating to the ...

Pope Francis made an unannounced, pre-dawn visit to a Rome landmark on Tuesday to pray after he was forced to cancel the traditional public ceremony because of the coronavirus.

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day morning, Dec. 25 — a custom dating to the pontificate of St. John Paul II. The Vatican announced Tuesday Pope Leo’s Mass ...

The relics of St. Thérèse of Lisieux are scheduled to visit Michigan, California; Washington, D.C.; Texas; Wisconsin; and ...

In Qaraqosh, Iraq's largest Christian town, entire neighborhoods were emptied. ISIS looted homes and burned churches, turning ...

Discover how Vietnamese Catholics blend faith and culture by celebrating the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival (T?t Trung Thu) ...

Bratwursts sizzled on the grill, root beer poured from a keg, and a German band struck up a lively “oom-pah-pah” — the ...

Today in History for Oct. 6: In 1520, German reformer Martin Luther published his Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, his famous writing which attacked the entire sacramental system of ...

Rotherham Council have installed smart CCTV cameras across the borough to help monitor water levels and improve responses to flooding and icy conditions. Funding has been secured from the South ...

(RNS) — Pope Leo XIV is not going to reject the reforms of Pope Francis, but neither is he going to quickly move beyond them. (RNS) — When Pope Leo XIV was elected, many people asked me about him. My ...