People have mixed feelings about February 14. Before Cupid’s arrow leaves you distracted, here are 20 things you might not ...

Pope Gelasius declared Feb. 14 as St. Valentine’s Day in 496 AD. It was not until much later, however, that the day became definitively associated with love. Valentine’s Day became associated with ...

Marian Text: [virginitas in partu] Published in Latin and English (DH0291; FOC 34, 93-94) Son of the Roman citizen and priest Peter St. Anastasius II (496-498) Apostolic Letter: Pseudo-Gelasius Letter ...

Professor Mary Healy of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Michigan discusses her appointment to the Dicastery for Divine Worship ...

COMMENTARY: Approved on the same day as ‘Lumen Gentium’ and ‘Unitatis Redintegratio,’ ‘Orientalium Ecclesiarum’ manifests the ...

The five Spanish Franciscans were killed in 1597 after telling a Guale chiefdom heir that he cannot take a second wife ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – “The horror of the extermination of millions of Jews and people of other faiths” before and during World ...

In a decree signed on Jan. 27, Pope Francis formally recognized the five Franciscan missionaries as having been killed for ...

The Auschwitz martyrs’ legacy of holiness continues to be a source of inspiration for Catholics worldwide. Here are several ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed in on the incoming U.S. president’s pledges nearly a dec ...