Born in Monteroni di Lecce, a small town in Puglia, a southern province of Italy, the 77-year-old Cardinal Semeraro has been ...

St. Joseph's Day altars are on display across the New Orleans area. The St. Joseph Altar or St. Joseph Table is an old ...

Pope Francis says in a letter to an Italian newspaper that his lengthy illness has made clearer to him the absurdity of war ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it ...

Students in grades 5-8 invited the public to come in and learn more about the saints and biblical characters populating ...

ROME (AP) — A chest X-ray has confirmed improvements in Pope Francis’ condition in his fourth week in the hospital for ...

The Vatican announced on Feb. 24 that cardinals in Rome would lead a nightly Rosary for Pope Francis with Vatican Secretary ...

In a prerecorded message, Pope Francis thanked those gathered for the rosary prayer service in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday night. “I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your prayers ...

The 2025 Belmont Stakes Racing Festival will be underway June 4 – 8 at the Saratoga Race Course. And to prepare for the festivities the New York Racing Association (NYRA) is holding a second job ...

Many Catholics recall similar vigils held in St. Peter’s Square when Pope John Paul II was hospitalized in the final days of his papacy in 2005. Today, as Pope Francis battles health concerns, the ...

Pope Francis' medical team has increased the pontiff's respiratory physiotherapy and active motor therapy as his doctors seek ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – In South Florida, Catholics attended mass at churches in greater numbers to commemorate Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, a 40-day season of prayer and fasting ...