Faithful from around the world are pouring into the Vatican, where Pope Francis' body will go on display Wednesday, ahead of ...

Pope Francis died on Monday morning following a stroke. He is lying in state in an open casket in his private chapel in the ...

This is Latin for “having had mercy and choosing him” — a phrase that Francis chose as his motto when he was elevated to ...

The Vatican announced that the first meeting of the Congregation of Cardinals, the gathering of the cardinals currently in ...

The country piqued my curiosity when I first read the novels of Orhan Pamuk ... The Meryemana is said to be the Virgin Mary’s house. She, along with the Apostle John, supposedly went to Ephesus ...

The Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin ... of Mary's birth, they brought her to the Temple to consecrate their only daughter to The Lord.The celebration of the Feast is first ...

The Gospels give some intriguing clues to the identity of Jesus’ famous follower—who was unwed, moved freely, and provided ...

The death of a pope sets in motion a series of carefully orchestrated rites and rituals well before the conclave to<a ...

St. John brought people to love Christ and the Virgin Mary by speaking tirelessly ... Offices in their honor and had the first Feast of the Holy Heart of Mary celebrated on February 8, 1648 ...

"The North Wind," painted while Emily and her sister Charlotte were studying in Belgium, is now heading to the Brontë family ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.

Unknown photographer / Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art ... his first religious vision at the age of 22—a visitation from the patriarch Moses. He later said Adam and the Virgin Mary ...