Some believe the basilica on Vatican Hill was built over the martyred bones of the apostle Peter—but is that true? After ...

As the sum of the first five pentagonal numbers, 75 is a pyramidal number, a mathematical representation of Abram’s name: ...

In the United States, they built the first Our Lady of Perpetual Help church in the Roxbury section of Boston, and it was eventually raised to the honor of a “Papal Basilica” by Pope Pius XII.

Peter was declared a martyr and beatified in 1889. Pope Pius XII canonized him in 1954. Within a few years of Saint Peter Chanel’s death, most of the island of Futuna had converted to Catholicism.

During the first millennium, the method of choosing the pope underwent several changes ... and just three ballots to elect his successor, Pius XII, making the 1939 conclave the shortest in ...

Kiki Håkansson was the first of three models from Sweden to be crowned Miss World, and the only titleholder to be crowned in a bikini ...

On June 30, 1988, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder and superior general of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX ... the latter by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009. With the recent death of Bernard ...

Also known as the Institute for the Works of Religion, the Vatican Bank is a private bank located in Vatican City founded by Pope Pius XII in 1942. Over the decades, the bank has been at the ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis celebrated All Souls’ Day Mass at the Laurentino cemetery in Rome’s southern outskirts on ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Vancouver Canucks center Pius Suter (24) is congratulated by defenseman Tyler Myers (57) and teammates after ...

When school administrators and the school's security staff arrived at Pius XI High School, 135 N. 76th St., they found the graffiti and immediately called Milwaukee Police. They also called off ...