Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of one woman and five men, including Antoni Gaudí, the Spanish architect who designed the Sagrada Familia Basilica in Barcelona, Spain.

Pope Francis on Monday signed a decree that recognized the 20th-century visionary’s “heroic virtues” and put him on the path ...

Using forced deportations and detainment to deal with migration is "a scandal," said Jesuit Fr. Arturo Sosa, superior general of the Jesuits. The 76-year-old Venezuelan superior general held a news ...

Antoni Gaudi was a devout Catholic and believed the construction of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica was his way to make ...

Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her ...

Kate Friend set out to make a series about the places where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared. Her pilgrimage took a ...

Among the wilderness, there are places for contemplation, if one knows where to look: park benches, lonely taverne, C-list ...

Ninth Annual Mass for Vocations held April 10 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in ...

The life, death and resurrection of Christ is recounted with the storytelling prowess of Charles Dickens, who explains the ...

Popes in my lifetime have written eloquently about Mary, many of whom had a deep devotion to the Mother of God. Pope St. John Paul II, in his encyclical “Redemptoris Mater” made this observation about ...

The first quarter of the 21st century saw a major rise in the number of people in the USA who describe their religious identity as atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular, w ...

Mexican Bishop José de Jesús Sahagún de la Parra is the world’s oldest bishop and is one of only four surviving bishops who ...