With a huge and festive crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV led his first Sunday recitation of the "Regina Coeli" prayer and urged all Catholics to pray for vocations, especially to the ...

In a moment reminiscent of Pope John Paul II's 1978 installation Mass, the new pope said, in Italian, "Be not afraid! Welcome ...

Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave ...

Pope Leo XIV appealed to the world's major powers for "no more war" in his first Sunday (May 11) message to crowds in St ...

The Catholic Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie will be hosting Masses in four areas of Northern Ontario, including Sudbury, to pray for the Papal Conclave, which will begin on May 7. Following the death of ...

Visitors to the Grotto said they are sad to lose the Pope, but it is a special time of year in the faith to die. Visitor George Krantz said he will remember Pope Francis as a holy man of prayer ...

Bernadette lived thoughtful and reverent prayer every day. Bernadette uncovered the spring of water in the recess of the Grotto, drank and washed of it. Millions have done the same with this ...

In Detroit, traditionalist Catholics were bracing for a crackdown. The promise of change in Rome offers them a sliver of hope ...

Opening prayer – to be prayed before each day’s special prayer Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of ...

NEWS RELEASE DIOCESE OF SAULT STE. MARIE ******************************** The Catholic Diocese of Sault Ste. Marie will be ...

The Mogao Caves do not lack grandeur — the tallest Buddha soars 35.5 meters, and 492 of the 735 surviving caves feature ...

Prayer candles stood on a ledge at the back of the grotto. To the side of the grotto, a circular rock formation rises upward to hold a figure of St. Therese of Lisieux, known as “Little Flower.” ...