Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave ...

Every pope has his critics. But Pope Francis’ conservative opponents were unique in that they actually had a living alternate ...

Across from the church, community members built a white, stone platform that held a statue ... to the St. Anne Shrine from its era of activity. Pettus, 84, said that her grandparents, Joseph ...

In his annual publication of prayer intentions for 2025, Pope Francis invited us to pray during the month of May "For working ...

A Mahanoy City man is in Schuylkill County Prison, charged with arson after police say he detonated an incendiary device ...

More than 250,000 people paid their respects to the pontiff at his funeral in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said ...

When I landed in Rome last year, renting a budget room tucked like an afterthought behind St. Peter's Basilica, I had zero ...

The late pontiff's radical housing choice broke with centuries of tradition and revealed everything about his vision for a ...

Along the cobbled streets outside St. Peter’s Church, sacred traditions are not only ... bearing banners of the Holy Eucharist and Mater Dolorosa (Mother of Sorrows). Life-size wooden statues of ...

Some devotees allow themselves to be literally nailed to wooden crosses in front of thousands ... faith and cultural identity. Credit: St. Joseph the Worker Parish, Makati City For many ...