Seal Beach residents Kate and Phil Bonito, the proprietors of Mystic Bookshop, stock titles for readers who enjoy a good read that delivers some guilty pleasures.

In a memoir of a year of celibacy, the author finds herself turning to a larger sense of self.

Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr. ordained nine new permanent deacons for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of ...

This week’s story, “ The Queen of Bad Influences ,” opens in 1913, in the English county of Gloucestershire, and is about a young woman called Constance who has recently left an all-girls’ school and ...

“I cherish you as my Queen of Bad Influences,” Constance observed. “I’m not much in that regard,” Minna responded. “Though it is possible I’m too flexible for virtue and too virtuous for villainy.” ...

Teresa was last displayed in 1914, when devotees had a single day to see the saint. This time, the display drew almost 100,000 visitors over two weeks, said Miguel Ángel González, the prior of ...

Over 90,000 pilgrims flocked to Alba de Tormes, Spain, May 11-25, to venerate the incorrupt body of St. Teresa of Ávila — marking just the third public exposition of her relics since her death ...

Pilgrims flock to Alba de Tormes, Spain, to view the 440-year-old remains of Saint Teresa of Avila, displayed by the Catholic Church for the first time in 110 years.

Saint Teresa of Avila died over 440 years but Catholic worshippers still line up to see her remains kept inside an open silver casket.

ALBA DE TORMES, Spain -- They lined up to see her, silent and wonderstruck: Inside an open silver casket was Saint Teresa of Ávila, more than 440 years after her death.

In Alba de Tormes, the remains of Saint Teresa of Avila, who died 440 years ago, drew nearly 1,00,000 visitors. They lined up to see her, silent and wonderstruck: Inside an open silver coffin was ...