VENICE – A Mass for Pope Francis will be celebrated by Most Rev. Frank J. Dewane, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Venice, at 1 p.m. Thursday at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish and is scheduled to be ...

At every Florida execution — including Jeffrey Hutchinson’s execution set for Thursday — church-goers and members of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty gather to seek an end to the ...

In the Parish of Our Lady of Lourdes, Sandro de Franciscis, who has been the president of the Bureau des constatations ...

Bishop Dewane will celebrate a Mass for Pope Francis on Thursday at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Venice. Parish bells will ring 88 times on Tuesday in honor of the Pope's age. The election of a ...

Caritas Africa, the Association of Member Episcopal Conferences in Eastern Africa and Caritas Internationalis were among the ...

Italian woman Antonietta Raco, who suffered from primary lateral sclerosis, "was cured in 2009 during her pilgrimage to ...

Bernadette could have easily recanted her story of the beautiful woman at the grotto and led a peaceful life. She was, however, incapable of denying the truth. What child is that strong?

In Lourdes, a place of pilgrimage for Christians worldwide, the faithful prayed for the "pope of the poor" after learning of ...

What exactly is Divine Mercy? The word divine means “of God,” or “from God.” Mercy embodies “love’s response to suffering.” ...

Ross Douthat: The death of Pope Francis ends, or at least temporarily suspends, a tumultuous period in the life of the world’s largest religious institution. A period where the pope was often pitted ...

The reported healing of an Italian woman during a pilgrimage to Lourdes has been officially recognised as the 72nd miracle ...