In the Jubilee Year of Hope, young people from The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington traveled to Rome on three ...

BC: Julius Caesar defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. 681: Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on ...

Seventy-years after her death, Philadelphia’s “Saint Kate” still marvels. Born Catherine Marie Drexel (it’s uncertain when ...

The monastery and tomb of the old saint had seen numerous desert raiders in the past 16 centuries. When Muslim conquerors ...

COMMENTARY: At her canonization in 1998, Pope St. John Paul II described her as ‘a martyr for love, who gave her life for her ...

Edna St. Vincent Millay moved upstate 100 years ago. A centennial celebration will showcase her life in the Hudson Valley.

On Aug. 9 the Catholic Church remembers St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein. St. Teresa converted from Judaism to Catholicism in the course of her work as a philosopher and ...

For those leaving Fort Chaffe towards a new life in New Orleans, the Catholic refugees brought the statue of Mary, Queen of ...