Pope Francis was admitted to Rome’s Gemelli Hospital on Friday to undergo testing and treatment for bronchitis, the Vatican ...

The heart of St. Roque lay in the display case in front of me. It still held the power of life and evangelization, announcing ...

The grocery stores are brimming with cards heralding the arrival of Valentine’s Day. Many cards speak of romantic love, but ...

(AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag) Prayers and melodic chants reverberated across Dakar’s Yoff neighborhood as thousands of Sufi Muslim followers from the Layene brotherhood commemorated the first public ...

One folk tradition that continues in some homes on St. Brigid's Day (or Imbolc) is that of the Brigid's Bed. The girls and young unmarried women of the household or village create a corn dolly to ...

James Edgar, with AFP's Asia bureaus Jan 29, 2025 Jan 29, 2025 Updated Jan 30, 2025 From incense offerings and vibrant lion dances in Beijing to prayer rituals at temples in Bangkok and Taipei ...

METAIRIE, La. – Snow is still the topic of conversation among a group of Louisiana nuns, but they had no idea their prayers were about to be answered in a truly memorable way. "Before the Christmas ...

Siena men's basketball coach Gerry McNamara and Mount St. Mary's coach Donny Lind didn't know each other before getting their first head coaching jobs last spring. But Lind had a reason to ...

And the battle was caught on camera. The Rev. Timothy Hedrick, pastor at St. Catherine of Siena church, took on three sisters in the snowball fight, and the video posted to the church's Facebook ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York and Father Frank Mann of the Diocese of Brooklyn opened and closed the prayers of invocation and benediction, respectively, at the ...