Photo taken by author, at the Madonna Della Strada Chapel at Loyola University Chicago. Iesus Christus, α et ω, principium et finis, filius Dei et hominis, Salvator ...

The religious order that Pope Francis belonged to is pulling out of the only Catholic parish on Long Island that it runs, ending nearly a half-century of ministry. The Jesuits plan to leave St.

At the siege of Pampeluna in 1521, a French cannon ball whizzed between the legs of a Basque knight named Íñigo de Oñez y Loyola, breaking his right shin and tearing his left calf. For the Roman ...

The 440th anniversary of that memorable day when Martin Luther first posted his theses on the door of the church at Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation is about to be observed. For me ...

On Oct. 29, Reformation Sunday, members of ten Protestant churches in Albert Lea, Minn., will proceed in a motorcade to the Roman Catholic Benedictine Abbey of St. John’s at Collegeville. There, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has declared the 16th-century Jesuit Pierre Favre a saint, bypassing the Vatican’s typical saint-making procedures to honor the first recruit of Jesuit founder St.