Raised without faith, Stephen Williams embraced Zen Buddhism before a surprising encounter led him to Catholicism and Opus ...

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

The Catholic sisters are trying to raise funds after they were told to vacate their convent. Prior to that they had joined a ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican released a partial schedule of Pope Francis’ liturgical celebrations in March and early ...

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.

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 ...

“Monasteries don’t make much sense without monks,” says Fr Richard Purcell ... He returned in 2022 after spending 14 years in Rome as abbot general of the order. “We could see it coming ...

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

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 ...