During his official visit to Belgium in September, Pope Francis did something none of his many illustrious predecessors have ever done: he visited a little-known library in Etterbeek called Biblioteca ...

The practice of preserving and enshrining the remains of saints and heroes, or other items associated with their life or death, has been ongoing for thousands of years dating back well into the ...

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St. Benedict of Nursia was born in 480 in Italy. As a boy, his family sent him to Rome to study humanities, but he was disgusted by the lack of morals he found in his fellow students. He lived for a ...

The name a new pope chooses will "indicate a certain spirit and direction and vision of the new pope," said Dennis Doyle, a theologian and professor emeritus of religious studies at the University of ...

Leo reflects both tradition and personal vision, practice rooted deeply in Church history Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of the St ...

In Assisi in 2013, Pope Francis explained why he adopted “Il Poverello” (the little poor man) as his patron. First came St Francis’s focus on Christ. Second was his focus on peace, not a “saccharine ...

The chaos we see is not random. It is the direct result of lies—about history, about morality, about the very nature of reality. The intelligence agencies, both foreign and domestic, that lied about ...

At that time: When they had crossed over, Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret and moored to the shore. And when they got out of the boat, the people immediately recognised him and ran ...

Today, we will study a man who had a great impact on European civilization and culture – Benedict of Nursia (or Norcia). A great part of what we know about Saint Benedict comes from Saint Gregory the ...

Joanne M. Pierce taught at a prep school run by the Religious of the Sacred Heart, the Newton Country Day School, in Newton, Mass., between 1979 and 1982. Since JD Vance became the Republican vice ...

Eight years after devastating earthquakes ravaged central Italy, the reopening of a monastery is an inspiration for an area still struggling to recover. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Norcia, ...