Father Carmelo De Palma, a priest known as the “hero of the confessional,” was beatified Nov. 15 in Bari, Italy. Pope Leo XIV recognized the new blessed during the Nov. 16 Angelus in St. Peter’s ...

I grew up in a bilingual household. My Italian-born dad would routinely speak Italian, while my Bronx-born mom was able to seamlessly switch between fluent Italian and flawless English. I myself spoke ...

BOLOGNA, Italy — This city of red-brick towers and delicately painted porticoes once boasted the most convents of any city in Italy: Nearly 100 sanctuaries sprang up in the 16th century for women ...

MIDDLETOWN — A full-size habit and gloves worn by Padre Pio of Pietrelcina is on its way to Middletown as part of an unprecedented tour of the sacred relics that have never left Italy. Saint Pius X ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

The Catholic Church is facing aging congregations, fewer priests and financial strain. In many places, this has meant closing parishes. But in Philadelphia, they're trying something different. In many ...

A long-awaited secondary school in Brantford appears to be one step closer to welcoming students. On Monday, just west of Park Road, the north side of Powerline Road was abuzz with activity.

THEM. WE CAN SEE THAT SIGN BEHIND ME WITH THE CLOSURE THERE. HUNDREDS OF PARISHIONERS IMPACTED BY THIS AS WELL. MANY OF THEM TELLING ME THEY HAVE CALLED THEIR SAME CHURCH HOME FOR DECADES NOW. BUT ...

Maurice DuBois is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News" in New York, the flagship evening broadcast on CBS News. He brings more than three decades of experience to ...

I arrived in Milan shortly after beginning my new assignment in Italy. I’m a Dominican friar from Indiana, and I needed to learn Italian! I enrolled in an Italian language school so I could sound a ...

The couple escaped to the celeb-favorite vacation spot in northern Italy for a few days between stops on Swift's Eras tour Mackenzie Schmidt is the Home and Travel Editor for PEOPLE. She's worked at ...

Catholic churches across northern Lake County will merge over the next "several years" into four parishes, the Diocese of Gary said, in an effort to offset the impact of shrinking numbers of ...