Pope Francis briefly appeared on stage during a special Jubilee Mass at St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, delighting crowds. It was his first official appearance at the Vatican since leaving the hospital ...

Pope Francis has made a surprise entrance to St. Peter’s Square during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and medical ...

With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to ...

The second, and even more significant, move toward reverence was turning ad orientem, that is, the priest at the altar facing ...

A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy, founded more than one thousand years ago is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter ...

Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated ...

ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated ... Later, he started attending Mass, adoring the Blessed ...

Francis didn’t get out of the car, but handed a bouquet of flowers to the cardinal to place in front of the Salus Populi Romani icon, a Byzantine ... to the Vatican and Catholic faithful who ...

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Catholics believe that upon their consecration at Mass, the bread and wine become Jesus Christ—body, blood, soul and divinity—while still retaining the appearances of bread and wine. The Catholic ...

Kansas Jason Alatidd Topeka Capital-Journal file photo Catholic Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, is suing the Satanist organizers behind next week’s planned Black Mass ritual at ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City has filed a lawsuit against a group of Satanists for planning a ‘Black Mass’ at the Kansas statehouse later this month. A lawsuit ...