Dozens of drawings Michelangelo made while planning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel will go on view at the Muscarelle ...

The novelist was based in Rome while writing his new novel and says the footprints of the Irish are all over the Eternal City.

Bushkill Falls is a beautiful waterfall known as the Niagara of Pennsylvania and is one of the iconic landmarks in ...

In an inventive mash-up of Catholic Schools Week and the 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope declared by Pope Francis, Our Lady of ...

In a place where baseball's future can seem murky at times, the sport's past is a straight baseline to the Babe – George ...

St. Irene of Rome was the widow of the martyr Saint Castulus, a Roman military officer who was killed for spreading the Christian faith in 286. She lived in the Roman Empire during the reign of ...

For the second time in four months, vandals have struck the statue of Old Tom Morris in St. Andrews, Scotland. The life-sized bronze figure, unveiled last October amid great ceremony, stands ...

Rising Ground, a nonprofit with roots in the early 19th century, now houses statues of its founders that used to be on a campus in Yonkers, N.Y. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday.

When a holy day of obligation falls on a Sunday and so is transferred to another day, the Catholic faithful are encouraged to ...

Although Tiberius began his reign as the second emperor of Rome as a competent, acclaimed military commander, his time as one of the most powerful leaders in the world ended in estrangement and ...

San Diego just moved to preserve affordable housing. Here’s what it could do. The proposed preservation law aims to prevent thousands of rent-restricted apartments intended for low-income and ...