AP exclusive: Under Notre Dame cathedral, a ‘dig of the century’ unearths 1,700 years of history

Archaeologists are digging beneath Notre Dame Cathedral to explore as far back as Roman Paris from 2,000 years ago.

Why Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became the patron saint of the US in the 1840s

Mary, as the Immaculate Conception, became patroness of the United States before the Vatican officially defined that belief ...