In Wednesday's General Audience, Pope Benedict XVI spoke on the life and history of “one of the most popular saints of the Catholic Church,” St. Anthony of Padua, saying that his definition of prayer ...

The friars began praying every day in a “perpetual novena” before the statue, a spot known today as “St. Anthony’s corner.” They dedicate their prayers to the petitions they receive from the faithful.

With her mother in the hospital for the second time in a matter of weeks, Aime O’Donovan felt the understandable need to connect with a higher being. So she reached for her cellphone and tapped out a ...

SPRINGFIELD - A prayer service marking the receiving of the St. Anthony of Padua relic, by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield, will be held at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 6, at the Cathedral of St.

O Holy St. Anthony, gentlest of saints, your love for God and charity for his creatures made you worthy while on earth to possess miraculous powers. Miracles waited your word, which you were ever ...

Springfield resident Brenda Madison was among the first area residents to venerate the relic of St. Anthony of Padua, and the physical experience of putting her lips to the glass reliquary containing ...

Sri Lanka’s St. Anthony’s church partially opened for worship Tuesday even as security forces were rebuilding a shrine inside following the Easter suicide bombing. The faithful were allowed into a ...

In the end, I didn’t appeal to St. Anthony because I’ve had no previous relationship with him. It seemed sort of presumptuous to just start chanting and expect him to help. I mean, I wouldn’t like it ...