The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like ...

Having grown up a wealthy pagan, Jerome visited Rome at about 20 and was converted ... where he met and befriended St. Gregory of Nazianzus (one of the four great Greek Doctors of the Church).

The shrine to St Valentine is still a major draw to the church and every year several thousand people come to pay homage on ...

St. Gregory seems to have been the first to draw ... at least as far as the Church of Rome is concerned; for some of the Churches in France kept up the number of five Sundays as late as the ...

Historically speaking, there are multiple saints named Valentine or Valentinus - all of whom were martyred. The saint we're ...

A leading Irish bishop has blessed two engaged couples after expressing concerns about the sacramental marriage crisis in Ireland.

During the pontificate of Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-604) a plague attacked the people of Rome and the Pope carried the image in procession to pray to their Protectress for an end to the plague.

A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or even death.

Whoever the Valentine was who gave us all the mid-February madness, he doesn’t deserve the credit at all. All the credit ...

left Dublin to visit Rome. There, he preached in the Jesuit church and word of his eloquence reached Pope Gregory XVI, who gave him Saint Valentine’s relics as a mark of esteem. In November ...

A saint whose teachings 'underpin the Christian faith' can be ... Aquinas was invited to the Second Council of Lyon in 1274, where Pope Gregory X hoped to heal the 'Great Schism' between the Catholic ...

In 1582, Pope Gregory ... of St. Paul. He was joined by Orthodox Metropolitan Polykarpos of Italy and Malta and by Anglican Archbishop Ian Ernest, director of the Anglican Center in Rome.