Photo / Thomas Hamill Verdi’s Requiem may well be the most deeply personal of his works. Inspired by the death of Alessandro Manzoni, a much-admired writer and political force, it offered the ...

He has a particular penchant for Giuseppe Verdi: "When I was 13, I listened to Verdi's Requiem from top to tail, and it was like I'd been infected by a virus," he said. Musical settings of the ...

At the pre-concert talk Sunday, Wainwright said hearing Verdi’s Requiem as a 13-year-old changed his life. “Ainadamar” and the 80-minute “Dream Requiem” have poets at their core.

was selected to lead the Catholic Church as their 267th pope. With his election to the papacy, he will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Who is Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV? ‘Da ...

He wrote: “This is a historic day for the United States, and we will pray for him as he begins the sacred work of leading the Catholic Church and ... the son and da Bears, amiright?” ...

At the Mass for the election of a new pope, the dean of the College of Cardinals made “a strong call to maintain the unity of the Church” ahead of the conclave on Wednesday, urging the ...

A day after the Vatican shocked the world by electing Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born cardinal who spent most of his career in Peru, to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church ...

Christine Mason, a parishioner, shared her optimism, stating, "I’m encouraged that the more we learn about him that he is welcoming and following Francis going forward for the whole church." ...

cookies and ice cream is free and open to the public and will be held at St. Mary Catholic Church, 715 Jefferson Ave. All are invited. Children are welcome now that school is out for the summer.