The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Maryland parents who have religious objections can pull their children from public school lessons using LGBTQ storybooks.

Pour a Glass at a Vineyard Linden, Va. Virginia horse country is also known for its wine. Just over an hour’s drive from DC, ...

To underscore the role of fathers in scripture, the Rev. Jim Weiner led a visitor into the foyer at Mercy House, a food pantry, diaper dispensary, and social services mission run by the Archdiocese of ...

It was his mother, Kathy Giacobazzi, who alerted him to the job at Trinity, where Kathy is a secretary. The Giacobazzi family are regulars at St. Valentine Church in Peru and Dominic gravitated to a ...

The Feb. 14 Dear Colleague letter was one of the worst attacks on academic freedom by the government in American history, John K. Wilson writes. On Feb. 14, the Department of Education’s Office for ...

Valentine’s Day, celebrated on February 14, traces its origins to ancient Rome and the festival of Lupercalia. The holiday evolved over centuries and ...

As Christianity spread, Pope Gelasius I officially declared 14 February as St. Valentine’s Day in 496 AD, likely in an effort to replace Lupercalia with a more religious observance.

Others say Valentine said mass for Christians who were being persecuted by the Romans, which made him extremely unpopular with authorities. Getty Images Who was St. Valentine?

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, at least three different St. Valentines were recorded in early histories of martyrs under the date of Feb. 14.

To the secular world, St. Valentine is synonymous with cards, chocolates and lavish gifts of roses to mark this saint’s day. But for the prior of Dublin’s Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel ...