The Vatican has approved the elevation of a diocesan shrine in Marikina City to the status of a minor basilica—the first in ...

A diocesan shrine in Marikina City is the first minor basilica declared in the Philippines under the papacy of Pope Leo XIV, ...

ROME— Before ascending to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV forged a deep connection with the Philippines through a series of pastoral ...

In 1887, during a pilgrimage to Rome, Thérèse Martin — now known around the world as St. Thérèse of Lisieux — visited the ...

The first documented sighting of a Filipino by a pope was at the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome on ...