The 34-foot white cross towered over the main altar during the saintly pope’s 1979 visit to Philadelphia and later over St.

There are many Catholic parishes in the Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton areas that belong to the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh. On Saturday, October 12, many of the faithful ...

The U.S. bishops' annual fall assembly saw the shepherds of the church in this country make intentional steps toward ...

Pope Francis was raised in the city’s middle-class Flores neighborhood from the mid-1930s through the ’50s, a time period that saw Argentina’s wealth gap grow. At the same time, so did the shantytowns ...

Methods of further incorporating “Laudato Si’,” Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical on care of creation, into the life of the ...

ANALYSIS: The vitality of the local Catholic community is evident throughout the communist nation.

A leading U.S. Catholic bishop on Wednesday called on his fellow bishops to help revive the tradition of abstinence from meat ...

A new series of scholarly and personal reflections from clerical and lay perspectives, available in weekly email newsletters, ...

The remains, mostly boys aged between two and seven years old, were placed inside a box of ashlars in a careful arrangement.

Bishop Teodoro Buhain Jr. was auxiliary bishop of Manila from 1983 to 2003, when he resigned ‘with protest’ due to ...

The pope marked the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the image of Our Lady of the Rosary in Pompeii with ...

The Vatican has said that the pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia-Herzegovina, can yield ‘spiritual benefits’ but refrained from calling the apparitions genuinely supernatural.