ROCHESTER — It has not been a good year for buildings named "Lourdes." In April, the former Lourdes High School was demolished to make way for Mayo Clinic's $5 billion "Bold. Forward. Unbound. In ...

Some 130 years before Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic, America may have been visited by other Catholic ...

Explore Tarnov’s St. Michael’s Church, a historic boarding school, and a museum filled with surprising stories—including a ...

Ditch the passports and long flights for this Indiana town. It boasts a peaceful riverwalk, gorgeous architecture, and a rich ...

For hundreds of years, people have flocked to a churchyard in a small village in Northern Ireland to gather handfuls of soil ...

My trip around the world included some time in the footsteps of St. Francis Xavier, and a poignant moment at his tomb in Goa.

Filipino tunes have resounded throughout Vienna’s historic Musikverein concert hall—thanks to the Philippine Madrigal Singers ...

Notre Dame Cathedral in France and St. William in Cashion, Ariz., are about as different as two churches can be.In appearance ...

All the large statues at the base of the spire of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris are back in place, more than six years after ...

Natalie Timmerman is one of the seven nurses travelling to Lourdes, said it was a "privilege'. "As nurses we provide holistic ...

Those watching the cultural news of the past week probably saw the festivities in France on July 14, Bastille Day, which is ...