On Dec. 31, while many people are preparing for their New Years Eve parties, some Roman Catholic Christians will also mark ...

A Peruvian bishop who left his community, currently under Vatican investigation, after being sexually abused by several ...

The bishop of the Sicilian diocese of Piazza Armerina, Rosario Gisana, and his vicar general, Vincenzo Murgano, have been put ...

It is also from him that Gregorian Chant takes its name; the chanting he had heard at Constantinople had deeply impressed him, and he imported many elements of it into the ecclesiastical chant of Rome ...

Francis, who is technically bishop of Rome, has been conducting a years-long reorganization of the Rome diocese and its pontifical universities. Reina – who is also grand chancellor of the pre ...

This Sixtus is known as "Sixtus II" (pope from 257 to 258) and was martyred prior to St. Laurence, who is commemorated on August 10, during the persecution of Christians by the Emperor Valerian. The ...

Lived in the 1st century A.D. Died 100 A.D. He is believed to have been the fourth bishop of Rome and served during the last decade of the first century. Around 96, he sent a letter from the ...

In his first public Mass, celebrated in Seville province, Spain, Bishop Rolando Álvarez prayed for his “beloved Nicaragua.” ...