Over nearly a century, the annual Solemn Novena to St. Ann in Scranton has become a reverent tradition continuing even during times of trouble and uncertainty, including the Great Depression, wars and ...

St. Ann is revered in Catholic tradition as the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus. A long-standing tradition at the St. Aloysius worship site of St. Robert Bellarmine Parish ...

Up early, Catholic worshippers were inside the Basilica of the National Shrine of St. Ann for the first mass of the novena Wednesday. "This is very holy ground, it's a place of tranquility, I love to ...

SCRANTON– – Lucille Mathewson is waiting to hear if she’s beaten cancer for the fourth time. The Clarks Summit resident returned Thursday to St. Ann’s Monastery and Basilica in West Scranton to ...

SCRANTON – As many longtime worshipers made their yearly trip to St. Ann’s Shrine Basilica Sunday evening, George Coyoy visited for the first time. Coyoy, 33, who moved to Scranton from Miami, Florida ...

St. Anne Church in Waterbury, Conn., has been compelling passersby to pause and pray since 1922. Admiring the church’s Gothic granite exterior, lofty twin towers and monumental dome from the elevated ...

A small group of three, including a mother and son from Avoca and Old Forge, began a walk from Our Lady of the Eucharist Parish in Pittston to the Solemn Novena to St. Ann at midnight. Their first ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Months after the Vatican upheld Bishop Richard Malone’s decision to close the St. Ann Church and Shrine on Buffalo’s East Side, some former parishioners say they are not giving ...