The Diocese of Madison is closer to having a cathedral once again.
With decree in hand, the diocese has the Holy See's approval for its proposal to make the existing St. Bernard Church in Madison its new cathedral.
"The cathedral is an important part
Russia's extensive drone attack on Kyiv Nov. 25 damaged the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Patriarchal Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ.
Russia launched close to 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones at Ukraine's capital, as Ukrainians marked Holodomor Remembrance Day, which commemorates the 7 million to
The Stockton Police Department was investigating whether a hate crime was behind an act of vandalism that left white paint streaked across the front doors of the 81-year-old Cathedral of the Annunciation in Stockton. Local news reports said that besides the front
On their way to Mordor, Frodo and Sam forcefully relied on Gollum to cross the Dead Marshes –otherwise, they would have never made it through the reeking wetlands. Could Tolkien have been inspired by the eskers that medieval pilgrims used to cross
The Church of St. Mary will be called a co-cathedral while the main seat of Archbishop Malcolm McMahon of Liverpool will remain with the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool city center.
Co-cathedrals are rare and usually come into existence either
The largest archdiocese in Ireland may finally get a cathedral for its 1 million Catholics, following Archbishop Dermot Farrell of Dublin's surprise announcement of an initiative to identify the church that could best fulfill a cathedral function for the city.
Two locations were
"In this sacred space, we encounter the living God in the proclamation of the Word, in the celebration of the sacraments, in the persons of the holy ministers, and in the sacred assembly -- you!" Bishop W. Shawn McKnight proclaimed from the
Four years after a devastating fire, the date of the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has been set for Dec. 8, 2024, at 11:15 a.m., according to Philippe Villeneuve, the architect leading the reconstruction.
Villeneuve made the announcement March 16 during
For a special vespers and Mass to mark the patronal feast of Baltimore's Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary during its 200th anniversary year, Archbishop William E. Lori appropriately used the crosier that belonged to Archbishop Ambrose Maréchal.
Archbishop Maréchal,
The first Catholic cathedral in the United States could have been a Gothic structure, but the first bishop for the Catholic Church in America wanted something forward-looking for the new country.
Bishop John Carroll chose instead a neoclassical structure for America's first cathedral,