This Saturday, the Vatican will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the recognition of the holiness of Sts. Teresa of Avila, Francis Xavier, Ignatius of Loyola, Philip Neri and Isidore of Madrid.

It is not often that physics gets the spotlight in a homily, but I pay special attention when it does, not because I care too much if the homilist gets the physics right (they usually do), but because ...

Perhaps you’ve seen these words this past year as the Vatican declared a young man named Carlo Acutis, who was born in 1991 and lived to the age of 15, a saint. But what exactly does that mean and why ...

“The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs,” part of the altarpiece painted by Fra Angelico in the early 15th century for the Convent of San Domenico, Fiesole, Italy. (Alamy) This essay is a ...

ASSISI, Italy — In the silence of St. Mary Major Church in this central Italian hill town, a tour group of Polish teenagers files past a glass-sided tomb to look in on a child of their own age. His ...

The Historic Mason Temple had a new carpet installed about three weeks ago. And Tuesday morning, the “Saints” broke that carpet in, dancing in the aisles, on the stage and in the pews to the sound of ...