The Church of England is weighing plans to exhume and enshrine the head of St. Thomas More , the patron saint of statesmen and politicians, in time for the 500th anniversary of his 1535 martyrdom.

I don’t know why Thomas Edison isn’t the patron saint of home-schooling. He said late in life: "My mother was the making of me…she let me follow my bent.

Lawyers, politicians, and other civil servants living in Northern Virginia have a patron in St. Thomas More—in more ways than one. Not only is the 16 th century chancellor-of-England-turned ...

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy — Pope Leo XIV called Sunday for “merciful compassion” for the world’s poor, victims of tyranny and ...

“I die the King’s good servant, and God’s first.” These are the famous words of St. Thomas More, spoken to the crowds moments before his public beheading on July 6, 1535, just two weeks ...

The new church at 3901 Cathedral Lane will have a Tudor-style façade that will be a nod to the church’s patron saint, St. Thomas More, who lived at the turn of the 16th century in England.