On this Sunday's feast of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. Msgr. Joseph Prior points out the basilica's significance past and present. All churches represent Jesus and our visible unity with Him and one ...

An archaeological excavation in Turkey recently yielded a Roman hospital-turned-Christian sanctuary, offering new insight ...

From being born enslaved to building the first Catholic Church for African Americans west of Baltimore, the trajectory of Father Augustus Tolton’s life is remarkable. Almost as stunning is the fact ...

Pope Francis gives some sweets to a musician during a welcome ceremony in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea on Sept. 7, during his recent trip to Asia and the Pacific. (Photo: AFP) Most of us have grown ...

Jacob Derry, a Pontifical North American College student and seminarian for the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan, helped organize the almost 10-hour-long pilgrimage for more than 40 people on Monday.

Archaeologists uncovered a 12th-century Byzantine church built over a Roman settlement near Ahtopol on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria.

The cardinals who are electing the next pope sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the globe. Many conservative Roman Catholic Church leaders disagreed with Pope ...