We drove up to the top of Mount Pellegrino, which would have taken 11,000 steps on foot (a popular pilgrimage route) to visit the sacred Sanctuary of Santa Rosalia (the patron saint of Palermo ...

a local laughed while chatting with me at a restaurant on the outskirts of Palermo. Part of what ... beloved figures such as patron saint of Sicily Rosalia and notable sea nymphs like Arethusa.

To experience this cultural mosaic firsthand, start in Palermo, the captivating capital city on Sicily's north coast. From a breakfast of brioche and granita in a local cafe to an afternoon market ...

Leaders of one of New Orleans’s other major institutions, the N.F.L.’s New Orleans Saints, were concerned. Gayle Benson, the team’s owner, is a devout Catholic, major church benefactor and ...

What followed was a months-long, crisis-communications blitz orchestrated by the New Orleans Saints’ president and other top team officials, according to hundreds of internal emails obtained by ...

refuses it, whereupon Francis—the anti-alchemist, King Midas in reverse, turning gold back to base metal—casts the money scornfully aside, “valuing it,” as Saint Bonaventure wrote in his ...

Scientists Solve Mystery Behind 'Blinking Mummy', Helps Them Reconstruct Manifestation of Past Diseases The Capuchin ...

FILE - New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson, left, talks with Saints President Dennis Lauscha, right, next to VP Greg Bensel, center, in the second half of an NBA basketball game ...

NEW ORLEANS — As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city’s NFL ...

As we enter the second week of the offseason for the Saints, it'll certainly heat up some. The team is expected to have in-house evaluations of players and coaches, general manager Mickey Loomis ...

As flames ravaged the hills surrounding the city of Palermo, Fenwick instinctively shifted his focus from people to the striking landscape - the trees and the surreal, fiery sky. “I believe you ...

We’re nearly two weeks into the New Orleans Saints offseason, and the team has already conducted several interviews with prospective head coaching candidates. Because of the NFL procedures in ...