Something entirely ignored about Pope Francis by the world at large was his day-by-day teaching ...

Ireland actually has very few canonised saints, the Bishop of Meath, Dr Tom Deenihan, revealed as he spoke last Sunday week ...

The Catholic Encyclopedia ... east of Antioch. Later monks moved to the mountains in what is today Lebanon. This rite never fell into heresy and was only separated from Rome by the political ...

Rome's Gemelli hospital, where Pope Francis is being treated for bronchitis, is the favoured choice of pontiffs -- to the ...

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure.

Pope Francis suffered a "prolonged" asthmatic respiratory crisis Saturday morning with doctors having to supply oxygen, the ...

Not many years before that, namely in 567, the second Council of Tours had enjoined the monks to fast from the ... as being at that time observed in Rome; and Durandus, in the same thirteenth ...

Benedictine monks in France are celebrating the 150th ... while the Gallican advocated for the autonomy of the church in France from Rome and the pope. The feast of the Immaculate Conception ...

American prelate, an exploding battleship, and the Roman Question all fed into Pope Leo XIII's decision to publish his 1899 ...

Chinese authorities imposed a fine on a bishop in Zhejiang province for celebrating a public Mass on 27 December with several ...

Pope John Paul II named the hospital 'Vatican III' and quipped that it ranked third after St Peter's Square and Castel ...

Did you know cult classic NACHO LIBRE was loosely based on a real story? The 2006 movie stars Jack Black, but the real “Nacho ...