Father Michael said Saint Valentine was one, very real person– or at least the man that the church honored with a feast was no legend. He said he did not know of the secret marriage ceremonies, but ...

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In the original festival, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then run around naked or nearly naked, hitting women with the animals' hides.

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While historians have long debated the holiday's origin story, evidence shows it predates the existence of commercial ...

According to History.com, exchanging Valentine's took off in the 1700s, a period coinciding with Romanticism in literature and art across Europe and America. When a woman named Esther A. Howland began ...

Valentine's Day has long been considered a time to celebrate romance and love with someone special. However, the full history ...

So this week, on February 11, when the Vatican published a letter from the pope to US bishops warning that Trump’s mass ...

Pope Francis has been admitted to hospital after a case of bronchitis persisted for more than a week, a Vatican spokesman ...

Pope Francis was hospitalized Friday for the fourth time since being elected in 2013, after he was diagnosed with bronchitis last week. Francis had part of one lung removed as a young man and has ...

Valentine’s Day -- the holiday made for a Hallmark movie. At least that’s what it seems like now. But it wasn’t always so ...