VALENTINE'S DAY is a charming festival which brings out the best in a lot of us. Its roots date back to the Middle Ages when ...

The leader of the USCCB has commended the move to extend to the universal Catholic Church the feast of a beloved saint and "contemporary witness" of faith.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a “beacon of hope” and an example of ...

Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a "beacon of hope" and an example of loving service to the ...

Public Domain On January 30th, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Three Holy Hierarchs: Basil the Great ... Saint Gregory – January 25; Saint Ioannis (translation of relics) – January 27). As a result ...

Her feast day is February 1, which will be celebrated throughout Ireland by remembering St. Brigid's remarkable story and by following certain Irish traditions. St. Brigid's Day is linked to the ...

Fifth graders Jenna Charter (left) and Annabelle Catena of St. Mary’s School in Bryantown, Maryland, sing during a Catholic ...

IT was most likely in the lecture halls of the University of Paris that St Albert the Great first took St Thomas Aquinas ...

The remarkable story of one of the most popular saints of the early Church The image of St. Agnes, a child clutching her lamb ...

January 27 is the feast day of the lesser ... It happened that one-day Comgall sent Beoan and some other monks to Rome with a message for Pope Gregory and while they were at sea Beoan caught ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has warned of the “scourge of anti-semitism” in his prayer on the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, noting it marks 80 years since the ...