In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring ...

The Argentinian pope is entering his fourth week of convalescence during which doctors have advised him to avoid crowds.

Pope Francis made a lengthy appearance at St. Peter’s Square to greet the crowd “Happy Palm Sunday and Happy Holy Week,” and ...

But the Virgin Mary received faith and joy when the angel ... 305 A.D. "Our Lord Jesus Christ in very deed (and not merely in appearance) carried a body, which was of Mary, the God-bearer." ...

The 88-year-old was not wearing nasal tubes for supplemental oxygen, as he had done during a similar appearance last Sunday.

continuing the pontiff’s gradual return to public appearances ahead of Holy Week celebrations. The 88-year-old pope paused to pray before the venerated icon of the Virgin Mary known as “Salus ...

It was his second in St Peter’s Square before a crowd, following last Sunday’s unexpected appearance ... Mary Major Basilica in central Rome to pray privately before a favourite icon of the ...