The decision by Pope Francis to break with tradition and be buried at the Papal Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome rather than the Vatican is shining a spotlight on the 5th-century basilica dedicated ...

A change in popes is a complicated process. Here are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of ...

Each year on Aug. 5 the church liturgical calendar commemorates the dedication of St. Mary Major (in Italian, Santa Maria Maggiore), one of the five great ancient basilicas in Rome, and ...

Understanding how Divine Mercy fulfills, rather than replaces, the Sacred Heart message.

In a break from tradition and by his prior request, the pope will be laid to rest in Rome's St. Mary Major Basilica instead of in the crypt of St. Peter's Basilica, where many of pope's predecessors ...

A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in ...

In 2020, his sister took a DNA test, and those suspicions turned to truth... he had been mistakenly switched at birth. "My siblings joked that, you know, you were the mailman's kid or stuff like ...

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry introduced their son, Prince Archie, to the world just two days after his birth in a royal photo call. And although Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd didn't know the ...

The Maryland Zoo has welcomed a special spring surprise. Their newest giraffe unexpectedly gave birth to a female calf. Zookeepers said when the 4-year-old mom Kipi arrived in November ...

From Arthur’s birth to his ascension to king and eventually ... set on the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, with Merlin appearing at Arthur’s court disguised as a harpist—a ...