Renaissance painter’s fresco cycle depicting the life of the saint in Assisi, Italy, took an innovative, vibrant approach to ...

Pope Leo XIV will formally begin his ministry as bishop of Rome with a liturgy steeped in tradition and rich in symbolism May ...

St. Margaret of Cortona’s story sounds surprisingly modern: cohabitation, heartbreak, single motherhood — and yet, her ...

In 1887, during a pilgrimage to Rome, Thérèse Martin — now known around the world as St. Thérèse of Lisieux — visited the ...

Mary Theresa Petrich recalled walking from Hatfield Street in Lawrenceville over the 40th Street Bridge and up the hill to St ...

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

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Listen to contemporary Louisiana composers alongside iconic works by Vivaldi and Bach, in a 200-year-old Louisiana opera ...

Sylvia Poggioli has covered several papal conclaves and the Vatican for decades. For this week's reporter's notebook, she reflects on what it's like to cover one of the most secretive institutions in ...

Artists have captured the hidden world of papal elections for centuries, turning secrecy into spectacle for the public.

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.