Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more ...

The Feast of the Chair of St. Peter isn’t about furniture—it’s about the foundation of papal teaching and authority.

But Francis was also echoing St. Peter’s own recognition of his sinfulness, as he responded to Jesus when he first called him ...

Mother, kids living out of car after camper they were living in is stolen from church parking lot in Chesapeake.

Every Feb. 5, the Church remembers St. Agatha of Catania, a young woman who consecrated her virginity to God and died a martyr’s death during the persecution of the Roman Emperor Decius in the ...

But the second was the feast of St. Sebastian, and this Diocletian martyr gives me a glimmer of hope for the future. Like that of early church martyrs ... and racists like Stephen Miller will ...

Pope Francis repeated this in the brief catechesis that preceded the recitation of the Angelus today, Thursday, December 26, the feast of Saint Stephen, whom the Church celebrates as the "Protomartyr" ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. The Stephen in question is the one mentioned in Acts Chapters six through eight, who is also known as the first Christian martyr.