A 17th-century monastery in northern Italy where recently canonized St. Carlo Acutis received his first Communion was in ruins after a massive fire ravaged the historic building. According to Italian ...

Ambrosian nuns managed to save a relic of St. Carlo, who received his first holy Communion at the monastery on June 16, 1998. St. Carlo Acutis on his first Communion day (photo: Carlo Acutis ...

A fire this weekend severely damaged the 17th-century Bernaga Monastery outside of Milan in northern Italy, forcing 21 cloistered nuns to flee the blaze. The fire broke out around 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 11 ...

How we handle objects says a lot about how we regard them. When looking at fine jewelry, for example, we are mindful to handle the gems carefully. When observing fine works of art, we don’t even touch ...

King Charles and Queen Camilla have made history. The monarchs completed a state visit to Vatican City, marking the first time that a British King prays in public alongside the head of the Catholic ...

Conservative Gafcon leaders break from Canterbury and claim the future of global Anglicanism. Not even two weeks after the Church of England unveiled Sarah Mullally as the incoming Archbishop of ...

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

• The congregations of Olivet Reformed United Church of Christ and St. Andrew’s United Church of Christ will gather at Olivet, 1648 Centre Ave., Reading, for a special combined celebration of the ...

(RNS) — Retired Bishop Barbara Harris, the first woman to be ordained and consecrated as a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion, died on Friday (March 13). She was 89. Harris died at a hospice ...

GAFCON is “now the Global Anglican Communion”, the chairman of the group’s Primates Council, the Archbishop of Rwanda, Dr Laurent Mbanda, has declared. In a letter to supporters on Thursday, Dr Mbanda ...