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 ...

Pope Francis celebrated first vespers for the vigil of the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, in St. Peter’s Basilica on Tuesday.

"Let us offer our prayer to the Father so that, like Mary, we may be pilgrims of hope who bring Christ into the world." ...

The Nativity of Christ, celebrated on December 25th, is a central festival in the Christian liturgical year. It commemorates ...

when the first phase of a cause for Spanish Basque Father Pedro Arrupe, who led the order from 1965-83, opens in Rome. Not since Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Jesuits in 1773 had the order found ...

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

Pope Clement VII personally received Parmigianino ... when noblewoman Maria Bufalini commissioned it for her husband and father-in-law’s burial chapel at Rome’s San Salvatore in Lauro.

His death, in a hospice affiliated with the University of Rochester Medical Center, was announced by the Rev. Myra Brown, the lead pastor of that church, Spiritus Christi, where Father Callan had ...

The St Nicholas Church in Demre, Antalya ... further shaped by cultural influences such as Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” and Coca-Cola’s iconic 20th-century ...

The pope inaugurated the Catholic Church's historic 2025 Jubilee of "Hope" at the Vatican on Christmas Eve in traditional ceremonies before addressing thousands of Catholic faithful the next day.

He was a lawyer and magistrate of ancient Rome and he wrote of two female ... to the order of female deacons by the early church fathers and it would seem that the main ministries of the female ...

The witness of St. Thomas Becket, whose feast day is Dec. 29, underscores the perennial truth that no earthly king reigns ...