A spokesman for St. Peter’s Basilica has said the ancient tradition of devotion to Veronica’s Veil and to the Holy Face of Jesus is a sign of hope and an invitation to return to the essentials in a ...

Bonnie Prince Charlie' — the ill-fated Catholic Stuart claimant to the British throne — is entombed in marble splendor within ...

Emotional testimony from the far corners of the world as the Pontifical Missions Society brings the Eucharist to those most ...

Sinner accepted his ban in February in a settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency. WADA appealed a decision last year by ...

Easter is one of the most important yearly celebrations in Italy, where it’s marked by religious processions, centuries-old ...

By Bill Parry The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an act of vandalism inside the Immaculate Conception ...

People rub the bare-chested area of the Molly Malone statue in Dublin for good luck. But the city council is now putting a ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

ANALYSIS: New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in ...

The so-called Ionian Revolt was the beginning of a series of events and war reprisals between Ancient Greeks and Persians.

Archaeologists working at a city in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have discovered two life-sized funerary statues ...

Los Angeles County has reached a $4 billion agreement to settle nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse in juvenile facilities ...