St. Gregory seems to have been the first to draw up the Office for this season, which originally included five Sundays, as is evident from the most ancient sacramentaries of this great Pope.

As Catholic Christians, we are taught to forgive others, to reconcile with our neighbor, to seek out amicable ways to end grudges and angry separations; yet we have been part of a grudge ...

However, the beginning of the crowning of a Mary sculpture or image is much older, or more precisely we have at least one much older example, that of Pope Gregory III (731-741) who donated a golden ...

Law President, National Catholic Writers’ Association According to legend, St. Sebastian was born at Narbonne, in Gaul. He became a soldier in Rome and encouraged Marcellian and Marcus, who were ...

The imposing facade was built by Pope Eugene III (1145-1153). Among its great treasures is a ... During the pontificate of Pope St. Gregory the Great (590-604) a plague attacked the people of Rome and ...

Even though far from being a saint, Pope Paul III in 1537 issued a Bull against ... note that even though he retracted his Brief, Popes Gregory XIV, Urban VIII and Benedict XIV still recognized ...

Cincinnati's 2025 concert calendar is shaping up to be epic. Already, we are seeing announcements for big names coming to town, and it's only going to get better as we head into concert ...

Gregory W. Watkins, 15 ... March 5: Donald Charles Warren III, 52, died of multiple gunshot wounds at the Economy Inn, 3300 block of West Coliseum Boulevard. Archie Lee Whitest Jr., 50, faces ...

Augustine founded what was later called St Augustine's Abbey at Canterbury ... until Ecgbert of York received the official insignia of an archbishop (the 'pallium') from Pope Gregory III in 735 and ...

Pope Francis on Monday named ... Prince George’s, St. Mary’s, Calvert and Charles. It has a total population of 3,050,847, of whom 671,187 are Catholic. Its outgoing archbishop, Gregory, took over in ...

When a pope dies, or more rarely resigns (Francis's direct predecessor, Benedict XVI, was the first to step down since Gregory XII in ... heads to the balcony of Saint Peter's Basilica, making ...