When a person dies, certain rituals are observed if the body remains at home overnight. Among Catholics, the funeral never ...

A few thousand pilgrims, many of them young families with multiple children and the women covering their heads with lace ...

Metro systems in Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, above, have already introduced “Women Only” carriages - Junko Kimura/Getty Last week, I was sent one of those Change.org petitions, asking me to ...

A top American cardinal has celebrated a traditional Latin Mass in St. Peter's Basilica with the explicit permission of Pope Leo XIV, a significant departure from Pope Francis, who had sharply ...

Cardinal Raymond Burke celebrated a special Traditional Latin Mass for hundreds of pilgrims in St. Peter’s Basilica on Oct. 25 — a return to a prior custom, suspended since 2022, of an annual ...

Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone celebrates the Pontifical Low Roráte Mass at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption on Dec. 13, 2022. (photo: Archdiocese of San Francisco / Dennis Callahan ) ...

The Mass was preceded by a half-mile procession from the Basilica of Sts. Celso and Giuliano to St. Peter’s Basilica. Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke celebrates a pontifical Mass in the extraordinary form ...

It’s not typical to see a group of people in their work uniforms attend Sunday Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia, but dozens of area doctors did so Sunday, Oct.

MINNEAPOLIS -- A 12-year-old girl who was shot in the head during a deadly attack at a Minneapolis Catholic church in August was released from the hospital Thursday and greeted with cheers as the ...

Blessed Karl of Austria died in exile aged 34 in the arms of his wife, Servant of God Empress Zita, April 1, 1922. More than a century later, his descendants continue to spread the story of his short ...