A remote Shetland island is celebrating its traditional New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world. Foula - which is home to fewer than 40 people - never fully adopted the modern ...

Foula is less than five miles long More than four centuries ago, Pope Gregory XIII designed the calendar ... "In Foula it's family-focussed, it's more intimate, and we are always playing music ...

When is the next leap year? Here are some fascinating leap year facts, along with all the details about why leap day always falls on Feb. 29.

Finally, the calendar we all know was adopted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. After skipping 10 days in October 1582 to "catch up," it has changed little since then. What to know about February and ...

This quote associated with Pope St. Gregory the Great is an apt reminder in the midst ... diffusing wealth and political power for the common good” (Section 1, Article XIII). In other words, public ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday continued his catechesis on “Jesus Christ Our Hope,” saying love is the force that compels people, including the Blessed Virgin Mary, to share their faith in God with ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his spiritual closeness with the people of Sweden after at least 11 people were killed by a gunman at an adult school in Örebro on Feb. 4. In a Feb. 5 telegram ...

When a pope dies, or more rarely resigns (Francis's direct predecessor, Benedict XVI, was the first to step down since Gregory XII in 1415), the college of cardinals gathers in the Vatican to ...