A month later, on the feast of St. Mary Magdalene, four Franciscan priests claimed to have witnessed the same apparition. Chapel built on the remains of the old church where, in 1649, the apparition ...

"This first international trip will be a very public test of Leo's papacy," writes Fr. Thomas Reese. "I don't expect a home run on his first time at bat, but neither will he strike out. A base hit ...

At the plenary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore on Nov. 12, the bishops voted to confirm the date for ...