Since then devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, has gradually grown more widespread in the Church, particularly since the apparitions at Fatima. The main difference between the devotions to ...

Persico was named Erie's 10th Catholic bishop by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. Persico was installed as bishop in October of ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, died at 88. The Vatican said he died of a stroke that put him into a coma and ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at 88 after battling pneumonia and bronchitis; his cause of death was ...

Hundreds of Catholic faithful gathered April 18 at Dinajpur Cathedral in Bangladesh to take part in the annual Way of the ...

Alongside the will, the Vatican announced the pope died following a stroke that led to irreversible heart failure ...

Teach me to allow Jesus to penetrate and possess my whole being so completely that my life, too, may radiate His light and love to others. Amen. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Cause of Our Joy, pray ...

Pope Francis wished to be buried in Santa Maria Maggiore with a simple tomb bearing only the inscription “Franciscus,” ...

The Pope has specified in his will that he wishes to be buried in a simple tomb at St Mary Major Basilica, with only ’Franciscus’ inscribed. His will expresses gratitude to the Virgin Mary and ...

Pope Francis has stated in his will that he wishes to be buried in a simple tomb in St Mary’s Major Basilica in Rome, not in ...

Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Church’s first Latin American pontiff who was known for his progressive stances on social ...

In the will, dated June 29, 2022, Pope Francis wrote that with the "feeling that the sunset of my earthly life is approaching ...