Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian bishops' conference, attends the opening of the interreligious meeting "The Cry of Peace" in Rome Oct. 23, 2022. Cardinal Zuppi will lead Pope Francis' ...

FATIMA, Portugal− As wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere, tens of thousands of faithful prayed for peace on Sunday at Portugal's Fatima shrine, one of Catholicism's most famous sanctuaries. The ...

It is a Vatican rule: candidates for sainthood wait five years beyond their deaths before the Catholic Church begins its investigation of their “heroic virtue,” the first step toward canonization.

Pope Francis begins a two-day pilgrimage on Friday to the holy site of Fatima in central Portugal to mark the centenary of the first visions of the Virgin Mary. The site where the Madonna is said to ...

FATIMA, Portugal, May 12 (Reuters) - As wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere, tens of thousands of faithful prayed for peace on Sunday at Portugal's Fatima shrine, one of Catholicism's most famous ...

Pope Francis canonized a pair of shepherd siblings on Saturday, giving the Catholic Church two of its youngest saints. The siblings are believed to have seen the Madonna 100 years ago in a Portuguese ...