COMMENTARY: However, vigils for popes, like the current one for Pope Francis, have been the exception, not the rule.

Her younger sister is St. Thérèse of Lisieux, her parents, Louis and Zelie, are saints, and her older sister, Leone Martin ...

Francis also decided to "convene a consistory about the future canonizations." Francis regularly approves decrees from the Vatican's saint-making ... chilly St. Peter's Square for the first ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before ...

Francis has done away with that sort of viewing. Instead, a public viewing will take place directly in St. Peter’s Basilica, where thousands have thronged to pay respects to popes in the past.

A man revered by millions as the “doctor of the poor” will be the first saint from Venezuela. Pope Francis approved a decree ...

The ACLU of Massachusetts called on Quincy officials to “cancel” plans to build two 10-foot, bronze statues of patron saints at the city’s new Public Safety building Monday ahead of a city ...

People pray ahead of a prayer service at St. Peter’s Square as Pope Francis continues treatment at Gemelli Hospital in the Vatican on Feb. 24, 2025. REUTERS Double pneumonia is a serious ...

The icon of faith among Talisaynons, the statue of St. Nicholas de Tolentino, the city’s patron saint, also earned a prominent space, reminding Talisaynons that faith in God remains an important ...

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The Francis College of Engineering has been recognized as exemplar and with a Bronze Award for the inaugural ASEE Diversity Recognition Program. The ASEE Diversity Recognition Program (ADRP) was ...

Two questions have plagued the minds of Christians and non-Christians alike: why is there suffering? Why does God allow suffering? In this column we will consider Paul’s inward focus, the way in ...