What made it even worse was the day after my retirement became official, Pope Benedict XVI announced ... of the Miraculous Medal. This is what I learned. In 1830, St. Catherine Labouré, a member ...

Francis, history's first Latin American pope, referred to the Cuban release during his weekly Sunday blessing ... ahead of each of the papal visits to the island by St. John Paul II in 1998, Pope ...

Are prayers and ceremonies of the Church also Sacramentals ... Who taught the use of the Rosary in its present form? A. St. Dominic taught the use of the Rosary in its present form.

The Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel The brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, according to the Carmelite tradition, was presented by Our Lady to St. Simon ... all of the prayers and ...

Prayers and fasting, Eucharistic adoration and getting back to the basics of the Catholic faith are some of the ways the ...

During a phone call January 11, the American president informed Francis that he was bestowing upon him the Presidential Medal of Freedom ... from his words, his prayers, his presence,” Biden ...

St. John Bosco (1815-1888) was a great man, priest and founder of the Salesians. He was beloved by all and had the unique gift of being able to form young people into becoming who they were meant ...

BOSTON (AP) — A gold medal awarded to the winner of the 110-meter hurdles at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, the first Games hosted on U.S. soil, is being auctioned off as part of hundreds of lots ...

A rare gold medal from the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis has been sold at auction for $545,371 as part of a larger collection of memorabilia from previous Games. BOSTON — A gold medal awarded at ...

N.H. BOSTON — A gold medal awarded at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics was sold at auction for over half a million dollars, part of hundreds of lots of memorabilia from the Games over the decades ...

The blessing of the animals is a long-time Catholic ... cats and the occasional parrot on the feast day of St. Anthony the Abbot, considered the patron saint of animals.