Muslims around the world are bidding farewell to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and will soon start celebrating the ...

Well before the French-Canadian parish completed the present upper church in the south end of Fall River in 1906, the basement shrine to St. Anne (the mother of Mary and therefore grandmother of Jesus ...

Hundreds of “Missionaries of Mercy” — priests with the authority to “pardon sins reserved to the Holy See” —gathered in Rome on Sunday for a special Mass connected to the Jubilee of Hope.

Even during his five weeks in the hospital battling pneumonia that nearly killed him, Pope Francis has never been shy about ...